In ancient Rome, many of the richer people in the population had lead-induced gout. The reason for this is unclear. Lead poisoning has also been linked to madness.
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Cancer has been around as long as humankind, but only in the second half of the twentieth century did the number of cancer cases explode.
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The modern decimal position system was the invention of the Hindus (around 800 AD), involving the placing of numerals to indicate their value (units, tens, hundreds, and so on).
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Your heart beats over 36 million times a year.
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Excessive alcohol use costs the country approximately $235 billion every year.
This painting depicts New Orleans in 1803, when the city was acquired—along with much of the modern
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A human pedigree of the X-linked color-blindness trait