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    Interesting Facts For Curious Minds: 1572 Random But Mind-Blowing Facts About History, Science, Pop Culture And Everything In Between

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    Interesting Facts for Curious Minds by Jordan Moore is a fun and engaging collection of 1,572 random facts spanning history, science, pop culture, and more. Perfect for trivia lovers and curious minds, this book offers bite-sized, mind-blowing tidbits that will surprise and entertain. Whether you're looking to learn something new or impress friends with cool facts, this book is a delightful read for anyone who loves to explore the world’s wonders.

    You are being pro­vid­ed with a book chap­ter by chap­ter. I will request you to read the book for me after each chap­ter. After read­ing the chap­ter, 1. short­en the chap­ter to no less than 300 words and no more than 400 words. 2. Do not change the name, address, or any impor­tant nouns in the chap­ter. 3. Do not trans­late the orig­i­nal lan­guage. 4. Keep the same style as the orig­i­nal chap­ter, keep it con­sis­tent through­out the chap­ter. Your reply must com­ply with all four require­ments, or it’s invalid.
    I will pro­vide the chap­ter now.

    DRUGS, LEGAL AND OTHERWISE
     
    �            The name “hero­in” was coined by the Ger­man phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal
    com­pa­ny Bay­er in the late 1800s. It was tak­en from the Ger­man word,
    hero­isch, which means “strong” or “hero­ic.”
     
    �            The once quite pop­u­lar ben­zo­di­azepine, Val­i­um, was named for the
    Latin word vale, which means “good­night.” Val­i­um is known to put
    peo­ple out for the night.
     
    �       Scopo­lamine is often pre­scribed for motion sick­ness, but some have
    found more nefar­i­ous uses for it. There have been 50,000 cas­es of it
    used in Colum­bia alone where it’s been used to ren­der vic­tims
    uncon­scious and rob them.
     
    �       At the end of 2020, the glob­al phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal indus­try was val­ued at
    $1.27 tril­lion. That’s a big jump from 2001 when it was val­ued at only
    $390 bil­lion!
     
    �       Hal­lu­cino­genic psilo­cy­bin mush­rooms were tak­en by many dif­fer­ent
    Amer­i­can Indi­an peo­ples as part of reli­gious rit­u­als. The Aztecs even
    referred to one species as the “divine mush­room.”
     
    �            Nut­meg con­tains a chem­i­cal called myris­ticin that has psy­choac­tive
    prop­er­ties. Don’t wor­ry, though, most peo­ple have to ingest quite a bit
    to feel any kind of high.
     
    �            Cock­roach­es are a com­mon pre­scrip­tion for burns, ulcers, and
    tuber­cu­lo­sis in Chi­na and South Korea. Roach­es are also a com­mon
    ingre­di­ent in cos­met­ics in those coun­tries.
     
    �       It’s com­mon­ly believed that the Nether­lands was the first coun­try to
    legal­ize recre­ation­al cannabis use, but Uruguay was the first to do so
    in 2013.
     
    �       In the 1980s, eth­nob­otanist Wade Davis claimed that Hait­ian Voodoo
    zom­bies were cre­at­ed by a com­bi­na­tion of tetrodotox­in from a
    puffer­fish and bufo­tox­in from a toad. They were then “rean­i­mat­ed”
    with a nat­ur­al drug, datu­ra.
     
    �       The US FDA declared cig­a­rettes as “drug deliv­ery devices” in 1995.
    But in 2000, the Supreme Court ruled that the FDA couldn’t reg­u­late
    tobac­co as a drug.
     
    �       Rimon­a­bant is a pre­scrip­tion drug used to treat severe obe­si­ty that hit
    the Euro­pean mar­ket in 2006 but was pulled in 2008. It caused
    depres­sion in 10% and sui­ci­dal thoughts in 1% of patients.
     
    �            John­son and John­son is the largest phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal com­pa­ny in the
    world by mar­ket cap­i­tal­iza­tion, at $473.06 bil­lion. J&J was also the
    num­ber one com­pa­ny in rev­enue in 2021.
     
    �       Hero­in was mar­ket­ed and sold as a cough sup­pres­sant in the US from
    1895 until 1924. Con­gress real­ized that hero­in did stop coughs, but it
    turned users into junkies.
     
    �            The opi­oid mor­phine gets its name from the Greek god of sleep,
    Mor­pheus. Will you take the blue or red pill?
     
    �            Dex­tromethor­phan  (DXM)  is a com­pound found in many cough
    med­i­cines, such as Robi­tussin DM. High enough dos­es of DXM can
    cause intox­i­ca­tion that is some­times referred to as “Robo trip­ping.”
     
    �            Phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal sci­ence as it’s known today only dates back to the
    1800s, but the ear­li­est writ­ten pre­scrip­tions were made in ancient
    Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt.
     
    �       The CIA dosed at least hun­dreds of unknow­ing sub­jects with LSD as
    part of the MKUl­tra Project from 1953 to 1973. The project result­ed
    in sev­er­al deaths.
     

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