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Throughout history, plants containing cardiac steroids have been used as heart drugs and as poisons (e.g., in arrows used in combat), emetics, and diuretics.
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Vampire bats have a natural anticoagulant in their saliva that permits continuous bleeding after they painlessly open a wound with their incisors. This capillary blood does not cause any significant blood loss to their victims.
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The first documented use of surgical anesthesia in the United States was in Connecticut in 1844.
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In most cases, kidneys can recover from almost complete loss of function, such as in acute kidney (renal) failure.
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The average office desk has 400 times more bacteria on it than a toilet.