There are more bacteria in your mouth than there are people in the world.
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More than 2,500 barbiturates have been synthesized. At the height of their popularity, about 50 were marketed for human use.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes is credited with introducing the words "anesthesia" and "anesthetic" into the English language in 1846.
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Computer programs are available that crosscheck a new drug's possible trade name with all other trade names currently available. These programs detect dangerous similarities between names and alert the manufacturer of the drug.
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More than one-third of adult Americans are obese. Diseases that kill the largest number of people annually, such as heart disease, cancer, diabetes, stroke, and hypertension, can be attributed to diet.
Sequential decline of whale catches in the Antarctic shows the strong effect of human predators.
Telomere length is related to the amount of time adults spend in leisure time activity. Source: Ada
Re-creation of Pheidias’s Huge Gold and Ivory Figure of Athena
Radiative forcing expresses change in energy input over time