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Divorse:

The world’s oldest divorcées are a 99-year-old Italian man and his 96-year-old (ex) wife. He divorced her after 60 years of marriage when he found love letters she had written to her lover in the 1940s. They married in 1934 and divorced in 2011.

Only one U.S President is known to have been divorced: Ronald Reagan.

The average length of a marriage that ends in divorce is eight years.

The average age for couples going through their first divorce is 30 years old.

About 1 percent of the total number of currently married same-sex couples gets divorced each year, in comparison to about 2 percent of married straight couples. (Note that the percent of couples that get divorced eventually is 50 percent, but only one or two percent get divorced in a particular year.)

The celebrity who has been married and divorced the most is actress Zsa Zsa Gabor, who has been married nine times.

Britney Spears holds the record for shortest celebrity marriage; her union with friend Jason Alexander lasted only 55 hours before it was annulled.

If your parents are happily married, your risk of divorce decreases by 14 percent

People who wait to marry until they are over the age of 25 are 24 percent less likely to get divorced.

More than friendship, laughter, forgiveness, compatibility, and sex, spouses name trust as the element crucial for a happy marriage.

A 15-year-long study found that a person’s happiness level before marriage was the best predictor of happiness after marriage. In other words, marriage won’t automatically make one happy.

Drugs:

Illegal:

Cocaine:

Cocaine was the first local anesthetic; being used as such from about 1884 onwards.
Marijuana:

Marijuana is created from the dried, shredded flowers and leaves of the hemp plant Cannabis sativa.

Marijuana is the most common illegal drug used in the United States. Approximately 100 million Americans have tried marijuana at least once, and more than 25 million have smoked it in the last year.

According to one national survey on drug use, each day approximately 6,000 Americans try marijuana for the first time.

The name marijuana comes from a Mexican slang term for cannabis and is believed to have derived from the Spanish pronunciation of the names Mary and Jane. (The two names were also common Mexican military slang for a prostitute or brothel.) Marijuana came into popularity as a name for cannabis in the U.S. during the late 1800s.

Miscellaneous:

The rosy periwinkle plant, found in Madagascar, is used to cure leukemia.
McDonald’s did away with its spoon-shaped coffee stirrers because people were using them as cocaine spoons.

Medications:

Aspirin went on sale as the first pharmaceutical drug in 1899, after Felix Hoffman, a German chemist at the drug company Bayer, successfully modified Salicylic Acid, a compound found in willow bark to produce Aspirin.
Bayer® Aspirin was the first drug ever to be marketed in tablet form. First marketed in 1899 as a powder, by 1900 aspirin was being compressed into a water-soluble tablet.

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