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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.
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Cytomegalovirus affects nearly the same amount of newborns every year as Down syndrome.
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The modern decimal position system was the invention of the Hindus (around 800 AD), involving the placing of numerals to indicate their value (units, tens, hundreds, and so on).
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The longest a person has survived after a heart transplant is 24 years.
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Aspirin is the most widely used drug in the world. It has even been recognized as such by the Guinness Book of World Records.