Clocks made before 1660 had only one hand - an hour hand.
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If Earth's history was condensed into twenty-four hours, life would've appeared at around 4am, land plants at 10:24pm, dinosaur extinction at 11:41pm, and human history would’ve began at 11:58:43pm.
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Approximately 25,000 workers died during the building of the Panama Canal, and approximately 20,000 of them contracted malaria and yellow fever.
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The University of Oxford (teaching since 1096) predates the Aztec empire (1428 - 1521).
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Kung Fu actually originated in India, but was developed further in China.
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