Colchicine is a highly poisonous alkaloid originally extracted from a type of saffron plant that is used mainly to treat gout.
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Your heart beats over 36 million times a year.
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Throughout history, plants containing cardiac steroids have been used as heart drugs and as poisons (e.g., in arrows used in combat), emetics, and diuretics.
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Urine turns bright yellow if larger than normal amounts of certain substances are consumed; one of these substances is asparagus.
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The first oncogene was discovered in 1970 and was termed SRC (pronounced "SARK").
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The Kingsley plantation, on Fort George Island in Jacksonville, Florida. Zephaniah Kingsley, the own
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