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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There are more nerve cells in one human brain than there are stars in the Milky Way.
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Cyanide works by making the human body unable to use oxygen.
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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.
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Asthma cases in Americans are about 75% higher today than they were in 1980.
