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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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    There’s a Swedish power metal band called “Sabaton” who teach history through their music, including an album devoted to teaching about World War Two.
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    The first coast-to-coast telephone line was established in 1914.
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    The first ever patent in the UK was Aaron Rathbone & Roger Burges, Map makers in 1618!
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    Knocker-Up
    Knocker-Up
    Until the 1920s, there was a profession called 'knocker-up', which involved going from client to client and tapping on their windows (or banging on their doors) with long sticks until they woke up.
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    Jericho is the oldest walled city in the world at 9,000 yrs old!
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    Originally, Du Pont, Inc. was a tiny gun powder mill in New Jersey.
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    The life expectancy in 1900 was just 47 years.
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