Modern humans first appeared about 200,000 years ago, but record keeping didn't begin until about 6,000 years ago. That means about 97% of human history is lost.
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Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history: spades - King David, clubs - Alexander the Great, hearts - Charlemagne, and diamonds - Julius Caesar.
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Henry Ford was Charles Lindbergh's first passenger in the Spirit of St. Louis.
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The first coast-to-coast telephone line was established in 1914.
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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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In medieval Italy, if a man was caught kissing a woman in public, he had to marry her whether he liked it or not.
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Pilgrims did not eat with forks. They only used spoons, knives and their fingers.
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In the 1830s, a Greek prime minister tried to spread the potato in Greece but people weren't interested so he put armed guards in front of shipments of potatoes so people would think they were important. People then started stealing these potatoes so much that the crop spread to all of Greece.
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