January 30, 2025
Famed New York City music venue Carnegie Hall has distributed 800,000 Ricola lozenges to patrons in a single season. The cough drops are supplied in wax paper, thought to be less noisy than a plastic wrapper.
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6 Common Infections We Wish Never Existed
We all miss a day of school or work here and there thanks to a cold or a sore throat. But those maladies have nothing against the ones presented in this list—six afflictions that many of us have come to know all too well. And if by some miracle of hygiene you’ve somehow managed to escape the
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