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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Pilgrims did not eat with forks. They only used spoons, knives and their fingers.
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Canada's new flag, with its maple leaf design, was unfurled in 1965 in Ottawa!
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The ancient Egyptians bought jewelry for their pet crocodiles.
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In 1987 American Airlines saved $40,000 by eliminating one olive from its First Class salads.
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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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The flushing toilet was invented in 1596, not by Thomas Crapper as most people think, but by Sir John Harington.
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During the Cold War, the US had planned to detonate a nuclear weapon on the moon.
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