Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox.
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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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Leonardo Da Vinci loved animals so much that he used to buy caged animals at the market just to set them free.
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The site where the Parthenon was built had to be cleared of hundreds of dinosaur bones (then called giants' bones) before construction could begin.
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The life expectancy in 1900 was just 47 years.
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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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Ancient Greeks believed that redheads turned into vampires after they died.
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