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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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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There's a bar in Ireland (presently named Sean’s Bar) that was opened in 900AD.
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Two dogs were among the Titanic survivors.
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The ancient Egyptians thought the function of the brain was to produce snot.
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The Taj Mahal took 20 years and 20 thousand men to finish!
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When Charles Darwin first discovered the Galapagos Tortoises, he tried to ride them!
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In 1963, the US Military created an artificial ring around Earth, similar to that of the planet Saturn. The ring was made of copper needles and was used for worldwide communications in the case that the Soviets disabled all other methods of communication.
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