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Your skin wrinkles if you stay in the bathtub a long time because the outermost layer of skin (which consists of dead keratin) swells when it absorbs water. It is tightly attached to the skin below it, so it compensates for the increased area by wrinkling. This happens to the hands and feet because they have the thickest layer of dead keratin cells.
Aspirin is the most widely used drug in the world. It has even been recognized as such by the Guinness Book of World Records.
The Babylonians wrote numbers in a system that used 60 as the base value rather than the number 10. They did not have a symbol for "zero."
Asthma cases in Americans are about 75% higher today than they were in 1980.
Illicit drug use costs the United States approximately $181 billion every year.