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Your heart beats over 36 million times a year.
Drying your hands with a paper towel will reduce the bacterial count on your hands by 45–60%.
The heart is located in the center of the chest, with part of it tipped slightly so that it taps against the left side of the chest.
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.
Critical care patients are twice as likely to receive the wrong medication. Of these errors, 20% are life-threatening, and 42% require additional life-sustaining treatments.