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The use of salicylates dates back 2,500 years to Hippocrates's recommendation of willow bark (from which a salicylate is derived) as an aid to the pains of childbirth. However, overdosage of salicylates can harm body fluids, electrolytes, the CNS, the GI tract, the ears, the lungs, the blood, the liver, and the kidneys and cause coma or death.
Sperm cells are so tiny that 400 to 500 million (400,000,000–500,000,000) of them fit onto 1 tsp.
Bacteria have flourished on the earth for over three billion years. They were the first life forms on the planet.
When blood is exposed to air, it clots. Heparin allows the blood to come in direct contact with air without clotting.
The familiar sounds of your heart are made by the heart's valves as they open and close.