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 Nestles haven't run Nestle since 1875.
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The Taj Mahal took 20 years and 20 thousand men to finish!
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In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
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The first ever patent in the UK was Aaron Rathbone & Roger Burges, Map makers in 1618!
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In 1976 an LA secretary named Jannene Swift officially married a 50 pound rock in a ceremony witnessed by more than 20 people.
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The World Trade Center towers used to have two zip codes, 10047-10048, one for each building.
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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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