Cocaine was isolated in 1860 and first used as a local anesthetic in 1884. Its first clinical use was by Sigmund Freud to wean a patient from morphine addiction. The fictional character Sherlock Holmes was supposed to be addicted to cocaine by injection.
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The first oncogene was discovered in 1970 and was termed SRC (pronounced "SARK").
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The human body produces and destroys 15 million blood cells every second.
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Alcohol acts as a diuretic. Eight ounces of water is needed to metabolize just 1 ounce of alcohol.
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Approximately 500,000 babies are born each year in the United States to teenage mothers.
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