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The familiar sounds of your heart are made by the heart's valves as they open and close.
There are 20 feet of blood vessels in each square inch of human skin.
The average person is easily confused by the terms pharmaceutics and pharmacology, thinking they are one and the same. Whereas pharmaceutics is the science of preparing and dispensing drugs (otherwise known as the science of pharmacy), pharmacology is the study of medications.
Aspirin is the most widely used drug in the world. It has even been recognized as such by the Guinness Book of World Records.
The largest baby ever born weighed more than 23 pounds but died just 11 hours after his birth in 1879. The largest surviving baby was born in October 2009 in Sumatra, Indonesia, and weighed an astounding 19.2 pounds at birth.