The life expectancy in 1900 was just 47 years.
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Jericho is the oldest walled city in the world at 9,000 yrs old!
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Cleopatra wasn't Egyptian; she was Greek.
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Pineapples were such a status symbol in 18th century England that you could rent one for the evening to take to a party.
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Early Romans used to use porcupine quills as toothpicks.
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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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In Ancient Greece, if a woman watched even one Olympic event, she was executed.
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