There are more nerve cells in one human brain than there are stars in the Milky Way.
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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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During the twentieth century, a variant of the metric system was used in Russia and France in which the base unit of mass was the tonne. Instead of kilograms, this system used millitonnes (mt).
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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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Earwax has antimicrobial properties that reduce the viability of bacteria and fungus in the human ear.
Splicing mechanisms in group I and group II self-splicing introns and spliceosom
