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    Candle Clocks
    Candle Clocks
    Before clocks, there were candle clocks that when burned, indicated the passage of periods of time. To set an alarm, you pushed a nail into the desired point and the nail would fall and clank on the metal holder.
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    Mahatma Gandhi used to travel with his goat so that he could have fresh milk.
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    Al Capone's armored limousine, after being seized by the feds, was later used to protect Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR), 32nd President of the US, after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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    The University of Oxford (teaching since 1096) predates the Aztec empire (1428 - 1521).
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    Clocks made before 1660 had only one hand - an hour hand.
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    Recently, archaeologists excavating in the old medieval town of Odense in Denmark uncovered 700-year-old barrels of poop - and, to their surprise, they still smelt.
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    In Ancient Greece, if a woman watched even one Olympic event, she was executed.
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    Grenades were invented in China over 1,000 years ago.
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