The Taj Mahal took 20 years and 20 thousand men to finish!
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A monk had once written over a book that contained information about calculus that was written by Archimedes in ancient Greece that could have made us 100 or even 1000 years more mathematically and technologically advanced.
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Cleopatra married two of her brothers.
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Canada's new flag, with its maple leaf design, was unfurled in 1965 in Ottawa!
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Romans used a plant called Silphium as contraception. They had so much sex that they drove it into extinction.
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Only eight men were killed in the battle of lexington!
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In 1987 American Airlines saved $40,000 by eliminating one olive from its First Class salads.
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The site where the Parthenon was built had to be cleared of hundreds of dinosaur bones (then called giants' bones) before construction could begin.
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