The longest a person has survived after a heart transplant is 24 years.
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Aspirin may benefit 11 different cancers, including those of the colon, pancreas, lungs, prostate, breasts, and leukemia.
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Most childhood vaccines are 90–99% effective in preventing disease. Side effects are rarely serious.
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Opium has influenced much of the world's most popular literature. The following authors were all opium users, of varying degrees: Lewis Carroll, Charles, Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Oscar Wilde.
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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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Volcanic plateaus (red) and impact basins (blue) dominate this topographic map of Mars