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The horizontal fraction bar was introduced by the Arabs.
The average office desk has 400 times more bacteria on it than a toilet.
Earwax has antimicrobial properties that reduce the viability of bacteria and fungus in the human ear.
Once thought to have neurofibromatosis, Joseph Merrick (also known as "the elephant man") is now, in retrospect, thought by clinical experts to have had Proteus syndrome. This endocrine disease causes continued and abnormal growth of the bones, muscles, skin, and so on and can become completely debilitating with severe deformities occurring anywhere on the body.
Critical care patients are twice as likely to receive the wrong medication. Of these errors, 20% are life-threatening, and 42% require additional life-sustaining treatments.