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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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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There is a 600 year old 240 paged book called the Voynich Manuscript, that’s written language is still completely unknown today.
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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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In ancient Greece, tossing an apple to a girl was a traditional proposal of marriage. Catching it meant that she accepted.
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The great wall of China is 1,400 miles long!
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Harry S. Truman was the last U.S. President with no college degree.
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No one knows how many people died during the sinking of the Titanic.
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