In 1844, Charles Goodyear obtained the first patent for a rubber condom.
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Thyroid conditions cause a higher risk of fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome.
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Opium has influenced much of the world's most popular literature. The following authors were all opium users, of varying degrees: Lewis Carroll, Charles, Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Oscar Wilde.
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The Romans did not use numerals to indicate fractions but instead used words to indicate parts of a whole.
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Amphetamine poisoning can cause intravascular coagulation, circulatory collapse, rhabdomyolysis, ischemic colitis, acute psychosis, hyperthermia, respiratory distress syndrome, and pericarditis.
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A parade for Grover Cleveland in Chicago in 1892, by John Klir. Music, mirth, real drama—a president