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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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Medication errors are three times higher among children and infants than with adults.
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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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After a vasectomy, it takes about 12 ejaculations to clear out sperm that were already beyond the blocked area.
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More than 30% of American adults, and about 12% of children utilize health care approaches that were developed outside of conventional medicine.