In 1844, Charles Goodyear obtained the first patent for a rubber condom.
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Approximately 25% of all reported medication errors result from some kind of name confusion.
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Of the estimated 2 million heroin users in the United States, 600,000–800,000 are considered hardcore addicts. Heroin addiction is considered to be one of the hardest addictions to recover from.
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The types of cancer that alpha interferons are used to treat include hairy cell leukemia, melanoma, follicular non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, and AIDS-related Kaposi's sarcoma.
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Blood is approximately twice as thick as water because of the cells and other components found in it.
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