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The B-complex vitamins and vitamin C are not stored in the body and must be replaced each day.
Drying your hands with a paper towel will reduce the bacterial count on your hands by 45–60%.
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.
Cyanide works by making the human body unable to use oxygen.
In ancient Rome, many of the richer people in the population had lead-induced gout. The reason for this is unclear. Lead poisoning has also been linked to madness.