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During the twentieth century, a variant of the metric system was used in Russia and France in which the base unit of mass was the tonne. Instead of kilograms, this system used millitonnes (mt).
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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 longest a person has survived after a heart transplant is 24 years.
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Excessive alcohol use costs the country approximately $235 billion every year.
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More than 30% of American adults, and about 12% of children utilize health care approaches that were developed outside of conventional medicine.