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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Cleopatra married two of her brothers.
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During the Gold Rush in 1849, some people paid as much as $100 for a glass of water!
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In 1980, the city of Detroit presented Saddam Hussein with a key to the city.
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The average life span of a peasant during the medieval ages was 25 years.
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Cleopatra wasn't Egyptian; she was Greek.
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Only eight men were killed in the battle of lexington!
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Romans used a plant called Silphium as contraception. They had so much sex that they drove it into extinction.
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