The ℞, sometimes transliterated as “Rx,” seen on prescription drugs is an abbreviation of the Latin recipe, the command form of recipere, “to take.”

Back in the days when most everyone in Europe used Latin, a doctor’s orders usually began with ℞ as an instruction to take specific ingredients and combine them to make a medicine for a patient. Pharmacists later put the symbol on medicine containers as part of their instructions to patients on when and how often to take the medicine.

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A mans beard grows about an inch in 8 weeks

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7 suicides are recorded in the bible

Ninety Seven percent of all people offered a new pen to try write their own name.

One out of 20 people have an extra rib.

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If you try to say the alphabet without moving your lips or tongue every letter will sound the same

Instant coffee was invented in 1901

All of the clocks in the movie “Pulp Fiction” are stuck on 4:20.”

Men dream more about other men while women dreams equally about both sexes.

Men and women dream differently. Women tend to recall their dreams more often than men and women tend to report more frequent and more intense nightmares than men. Men dream more often about other men rather than women, whereas women dream equally often about men and women. For example 67% of characters in men’s dreams are other men whereas 48% of characters in women’s dreams are other women. Men tend to dream about aggressive encounters with other men (typically strangers) while women tend to dream about interactions with familiar others that take place in familiar surroundings.

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In “Silence of the Lambs”, Hannibal Lector (Anthony Hopkins) never blinks.

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