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Opium has influenced much of the world's most popular literature. The following authors were all opium users, of varying degrees: Lewis Carroll, Charles, Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Oscar Wilde.
To prove that stomach ulcers were caused by bacteria and not by stress, a researcher consumed an entire laboratory beaker full of bacterial culture. After this, he did indeed develop stomach ulcers, and won the Nobel Prize for his discovery.
In the United States, there is a birth every 8 seconds, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's Population Clock.
In the United States, an estimated 50 million unnecessary antibiotics are prescribed for viral respiratory infections.
Egg cells are about the size of a grain of sand. They are formed inside of a female's ovaries before she is even born.