During the Gold Rush in 1849, some people paid as much as $100 for a glass of water!
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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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In Ancient Greece, if a woman watched even one Olympic event, she was executed.
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In 1799, a boy found a 17lb. rock in a creek in North Carolina and used it as a doorstop. It was actually gold.
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Pierre Jaquet-Droz, a watchmaker, 240 years ago invented a robot that could write, and the parts could be interchanged to say whatever you want.
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Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
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India invented the Number System. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.
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The first bomb dropped on Germany in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin zoo!
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