The Babylonians wrote numbers in a system that used 60 as the base value rather than the number 10. They did not have a symbol for "zero."
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Women are two-thirds more likely than men to develop irritable bowel syndrome. This may be attributable to hormonal changes related to their menstrual cycles.
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Illicit drug use costs the United States approximately $181 billion every year.
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Bacteria have flourished on the earth for over three billion years. They were the first life forms on the planet.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes is credited with introducing the words "anesthesia" and "anesthetic" into the English language in 1846.
Bony processes found on the femur.
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A demand delivery system uses a fuel-pressure regulator attached to the fuel pump assembly inside ...