The Romans did not use numerals to indicate fractions but instead used words to indicate parts of a whole.
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Aspirin is the most widely used drug in the world. It has even been recognized as such by the Guinness Book of World Records.
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There are more bacteria in your mouth than there are people in the world.
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Your chance of developing a kidney stone is 1 in 10. In recent years, approximately 3.7 million people in the United States were diagnosed with a kidney disease.
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More than 150,000 Americans killed by cardiovascular disease are younger than the age of 65 years.
Members of the Lemba ethnic group from southern Africa.
Historian James Merrell notes several errors in Benjamin West’s famous 1771 painting, William Penn’s
The learning and retention of the mirrordrawing task by H.M. Despite his good retention of the task, ...