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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The original Cinderella was Egyptian and wore fur slippers.
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In 1542, French aristocrat Marguerite De La Rocque survived being marooned for 2 years alone on a remote island off the coast of Quebec.
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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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It is estimated that there is in excess of 3,000,000,000 bibles been sold throughout the world!
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A singing birthday card has more computing power than the allied forces in 1945.
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Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
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The time interval from first sighting of the iceberg that sank the Titanic to impact was a little over 30 seconds.
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