London's Pall Mall became the first street lit by gaslight in 1807!
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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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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 Titanic is about as long as the Empire State building is tall.
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France’s King Louis XIV was offered biological weapons by an Italian chemist. He not only refused, but also paid the chemist an annual salary to never reveal the technology to anyone else.
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The U.S. motto, 'In God We Trust', was not adopted as the national slogan until 1956.
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In 1987 American Airlines saved $40,000 by eliminating one olive from its First Class salads.
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