Nitroglycerin is used to alleviate various heart-related conditions, and it is also the chief component of dynamite (but mixed in a solid clay base to stabilize it).
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Eating food that has been cooked with poppy seeds may cause you to fail a drug screening test, because the seeds contain enough opiate alkaloids to register as a positive.
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The human body produces and destroys 15 million blood cells every second.
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There are more nerve cells in one human brain than there are stars in the Milky Way.
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Vaccines prevent between 2.5 and 4 million deaths every year.
