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Illicit drug use costs the United States approximately $181 billion every year.
In 1844, Charles Goodyear obtained the first patent for a rubber condom.
Human kidneys will clean about 1 million gallons of blood in an average lifetime.
The Romans did not use numerals to indicate fractions but instead used words to indicate parts of a whole.
The Food and Drug Administration has approved Risperdal, an adult antipsychotic drug, for the symptomatic treatment of irritability in children and adolescents with autism. The approval is the first for the use of a drug to treat behaviors associated with autism in children. These behaviors are included under the general heading of irritability and include aggression, deliberate self-injury, and temper tantrums.