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    In 1897, Bayer, who is the maker of Aspirin, marketed the drug heroin.
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    Jericho is the oldest walled city in the world at 9,000 yrs old!
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    Approximately 40% of the U.S. paper currency in circulation was counterfeit by the end of the Civil War.
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    No one knows who designed the first American Flag.
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    India invented the Number System. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.
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    Derinkuyu Underground City
    Derinkuyu Underground City
    In 1963, a man found a mysterious room behind a wall in his home that lead to a huge underground city that once housed up to 20,000 people, complete with schools, livestock pens, and food stores, dating back over a millennium.
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    Genghis Khan exempted the poor and clergy from taxes, encouraged literacy, and established free religion, leading many peoples to join his empire before they were even conquered.
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    The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.
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