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    India invented the Number System. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.
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    The universally popular Hershey bar was used overseas during World War II as currency.
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    The life expectancy in 1900 was just 47 years.
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    The average life span of a peasant during the medieval ages was 25 years.
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    The Canadian province of New Brunswick (which was part of the UK at the time) had a bloodless war with the US state of Maine in 1839
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