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by DoingIsLearning 1289 days ago
> acetaminophen

That's paracetamol for the rest of the world in case you were confused like I was.
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ChrisPebble 1289 days ago
I was curious about this and looked it up on google trends. It looks like acetaminophen is the more commonly searched term.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=paracetamol,%2Fm%...

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zerocrates 1289 days ago
I get the results I'd expect: acetaminophen is the vast leader in the US and Canada only, while paracetamol totally dominates essentially everywhere else and is by far the more searched term globally.
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