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The Romans did not use numerals to indicate fractions but instead used words to indicate parts of a whole.
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There used to be a metric calendar, as well as metric clocks. The metric calendar, or "French Republican Calendar" divided the year into 12 months, but each month was divided into three 10-day weeks. Each day had 10 decimal hours. Each hour had 100 decimal minutes. Due to lack of popularity, the metric clocks and calendars were ended in 1795, three years after they had been first marketed.
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Certain rare plants containing cyanide include apricot pits and a type of potato called cassava. Fortunately, only chronic or massive ingestion of any of these plants can lead to serious poisoning.
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Warfarin was developed as a consequence of the study of a strange bleeding disorder that suddenly occurred in cattle on the northern prairies of the United States in the early 1900s.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes is credited with introducing the words "anesthesia" and "anesthetic" into the English language in 1846.
20,000 year old spotted hyena painting from the Chauvet Cave, France
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The Kingsley plantation, on Fort George Island in Jacksonville, Florida. Zephaniah Kingsley, the own
A farmer with a pitchfork, wearing a hat identifying him as a Granger, warns of an oncoming “Consoli
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Mathematics is the language of universe