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There are more sensory neurons in the tongue than in any other part of the body.
Approximately 500,000 babies are born each year in the United States to teenage mothers.
Street names for barbiturates include reds, red devils, yellow jackets, blue heavens, Christmas trees, and rainbows. They are commonly referred to as downers.
Cancer has been around as long as humankind, but only in the second half of the twentieth century did the number of cancer cases explode.
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.