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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The average office desk has 400 times more bacteria on it than a toilet.
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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 FDA recognizes 118 routes of administration.
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Asthma cases in Americans are about 75% higher today than they were in 1980.
Uranus's aurorae against its equatorial rings, imaged by the Hubble telescope. Unlike the auror
Surface magnetic field of SU Aur (a young star of T Tauri type), reconstructed by means of Zeeman-Do
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The process of phagocytosis: a phagocyte engulfing bacteria or other foreign material.