The great wall of China is 1,400 miles long!
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London's Pall Mall became the first street lit by gaslight in 1807!
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The original Cinderella was Egyptian and wore fur slippers.
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English sailors were referred to as "limeys" because sailors added lime juice to their diet to combat scurvy.
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Scientists are excavating the ruins of a major civilization which pre-dates both the pyramids and Stonehenge by over 7,000 years. In 15 years, they have uncovered only about 5% of the site.
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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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In 1982, a high school student from Los Angeles, California unscrambled the Rubik's Cube in 22.95 seconds.
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The Grateful Dead were once called 'The Warlocks'.
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