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Egg cells are about the size of a grain of sand. They are formed inside of a female's ovaries before she is even born.
Approximately 500,000 babies are born each year in the United States to teenage mothers.
Blood is approximately twice as thick as water because of the cells and other components found in it.
Medications that are definitely not safe to take when breastfeeding include radioactive drugs, antimetabolites, some cancer (chemotherapy) agents, bromocriptine, ergotamine, methotrexate, and cyclosporine.
Cocaine was isolated in 1860 and first used as a local anesthetic in 1884. Its first clinical use was by Sigmund Freud to wean a patient from morphine addiction. The fictional character Sherlock Holmes was supposed to be addicted to cocaine by injection.