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In 1864, the first barbiturate (barbituric acid) was synthesized.
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During the twentieth century, a variant of the metric system was used in Russia and France in which the base unit of mass was the tonne. Instead of kilograms, this system used millitonnes (mt).
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Most childhood vaccines are 90–99% effective in preventing disease. Side effects are rarely serious.
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Prostaglandins were first isolated from human semen in Sweden in the 1930s. They were so named because the researcher thought that they came from the prostate gland. In fact, prostaglandins exist and are synthesized in almost every cell of the body.
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Bacteria have been found alive in a lake buried one half mile under ice in Antarctica.