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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A singing birthday card has more computing power than the allied forces in 1945.
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To take an oath, ancient Romans put a hand on their testicles
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Canada's new flag, with its maple leaf design, was unfurled in 1965 in Ottawa!
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In the 1830s, a Greek prime minister tried to spread the potato in Greece but people weren't interested so he put armed guards in front of shipments of potatoes so people would think they were important. People then started stealing these potatoes so much that the crop spread to all of Greece.
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The handbook issued to US soldiers in Britain during WW2 included the line "The British don't know how to make a good cup of coffee. You don't know how to make a good cup of tea. It's an even swap."
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If a surgeon in Ancient Egypt lost a patient while performing an operation, his hands were cut off.
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