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  2. Tuberculosis - Wikipedia

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    In 15–20% of active cases, the infection spreads outside the lungs, causing other kinds of TB. [52] These are collectively denoted as extrapulmonary tuberculosis. [53] Extrapulmonary TB occurs more commonly in people with a weakened immune system and young children. In those with HIV, this occurs in more than 50% of cases. [53]

  3. Japanese yen - Wikipedia

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    In 1897, the silver 1 yen coin was demonetized and the sizes of the gold coins were reduced by 50%, with 5, 10 and 20 yen coins issued. After the war, brass 50 sen, 1 and 5 yen were introduced between 1946 and 1948. The current-type holed brass 5 yen was introduced in 1949, the bronze 10 yen in 1951, and the aluminum 1 yen in 1955. In 1955 the ...

  4. Autism - Wikipedia

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    Autism, also called autism spectrum disorder [a] (ASD) or autism spectrum condition (ASC), [11] is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by symptoms of deficient reciprocal social communication and the presence of restricted, repetitive, and inflexible patterns of behavior that are impairing in multiple contexts and excessive or atypical to be developmentally and socioculturally ...

  5. Raccoon - Wikipedia

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    The raccoon (/ r ə ˈ k uː n / or US: / r æ ˈ k uː n / ⓘ, Procyon lotor), also spelled racoon [3] and sometimes called the common raccoon or northern raccoon to distinguish it from the other species, is a mammal native to North America.

  6. Maldives - Wikipedia

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    A new penal code came into effect on 16 July 2015, replacing the 1968 law, the first modern, comprehensive penal code to incorporate the major tenets and principles of Islamic law. [ 144 ] [ 145 ] Same-sex relations are illegal in the Maldives, although tourist resorts typically operate as exceptions to this law.

  7. Cryptocurrency - Wikipedia

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    The main source for this inefficiency is the large mining cost, which is estimated to be US$360 million per year. This translates into users being willing to accept a cash system with an inflation rate of 230% before being better off using Bitcoin as a means of payment.

  8. Ten-code - Wikipedia

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    California Penal Code sections were in use by the Los Angeles Police Department as early as the 1940s, and these Hundred Code numbers are still used today instead of the corresponding ten-code. Generally these are given as two sets of numbers [ citation needed ] —"One Eighty-Seven" or "Fifty-One Fifty"—with a few exceptions such as "459 ...

  9. UTF-8 - Wikipedia

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    In the following examples, red, green, and blue digits indicate how bits from the code point are distributed among the UTF-8 bytes. Additional bits added by the UTF-8 encoding process are shown in black. The Unicode code point for the euro sign € is U+20AC. As this code point lies between U+0800 and U+FFFF, this will take three bytes to encode.