The Romans did not use numerals to indicate fractions but instead used words to indicate parts of a whole.
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Liver spots have nothing whatsoever to do with the liver. They are a type of freckles commonly seen in older adults who have been out in the sun without sufficient sunscreen.
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Illicit drug use costs the United States approximately $181 billion every year.
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Walt Disney helped combat malaria by making an animated film in 1943 called The Winged Scourge. This short film starred the seven dwarfs and taught children that mosquitos transmit malaria, which is a very bad disease. It advocated the killing of mosquitos to stop the disease.
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During the twentieth century, a variant of the metric system was used in Russia and France in which the base unit of mass was the tonne. Instead of kilograms, this system used millitonnes (mt).
Muskox populations remain in the Arctic all year, though they migrate to higher elevations in the wi
The Black Death spread over much of Europe in a three-year period in the middle of the fourteenth ce