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Cancer has been around as long as humankind, but only in the second half of the twentieth century did the number of cancer cases explode.
According to animal studies, the typical American diet is damaging to the liver and may result in allergies, low energy, digestive problems, and a lack of ability to detoxify harmful substances.
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).
The Babylonians wrote numbers in a system that used 60 as the base value rather than the number 10. They did not have a symbol for "zero."
Egg cells are about the size of a grain of sand. They are formed inside of a female's ovaries before she is even born.