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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.
Aspirin is the most widely used drug in the world. It has even been recognized as such by the Guinness Book of World Records.
Blood is approximately twice as thick as water because of the cells and other components found in it.
Hypertension is a silent killer because it is deadly and has no significant early symptoms. The danger from hypertension is the extra load on the heart, which can lead to hypertensive heart disease and kidney damage. This occurs without any major symptoms until the high blood pressure becomes extreme. Regular blood pressure checks are an important method of catching hypertension before it can kill you.
Human kidneys will clean about 1 million gallons of blood in an average lifetime.