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The calories found in one piece of cherry cheesecake could light a 60-watt light bulb for 1.5 hours.
Pubic lice (crabs) are usually spread through sexual contact. You cannot catch them by using a public toilet.
In most cases, kidneys can recover from almost complete loss of function, such as in acute kidney (renal) failure.
Dogs have been used in studies to detect various cancers in human subjects. They have been trained to sniff breath samples from humans that were collected by having them breathe into special tubes. These people included 55 lung cancer patients, 31 breast cancer patients, and 83 cancer-free patients. The dogs detected 54 of the 55 lung cancer patients as having cancer, detected 28 of the 31 breast cancer patients, and gave only three false-positive results (detecting cancer in people who didn't have it).
When intravenous medications are involved in adverse drug events, their harmful effects may occur more rapidly, and be more severe than errors with oral medications. This is due to the direct administration into the bloodstream.