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The first oral chemotherapy drug for colon cancer was approved by FDA in 2001.
The ratio of hydrogen atoms to oxygen in water (H2O) is 2:1.
The Romans did not use numerals to indicate fractions but instead used words to indicate parts of a whole.
Pope Sylvester II tried to introduce Arabic numbers into Europe between the years 999 and 1003, but their use did not catch on for a few more centuries, and Roman numerals continued to be the primary number system.
Although the Roman numeral for the number 4 has always been taught to have been "IV," according to historians, the ancient Romans probably used "IIII" most of the time. This is partially backed up by the fact that early grandfather clocks displayed IIII for the number 4 instead of IV. Early clockmakers apparently thought that the IIII balanced out the VIII (used for the number 8) on the clock face and that it just looked better.