The site where the Parthenon was built had to be cleared of hundreds of dinosaur bones (then called giants' bones) before construction could begin.
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Che Guevara suffered from asthma!
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A singing birthday card has more computing power than the allied forces in 1945.
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The time interval from first sighting of the iceberg that sank the Titanic to impact was a little over 30 seconds.
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Leonardo Da Vinci loved animals so much that he used to buy caged animals at the market just to set them free.
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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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During WW2, captured German officers were sent to Britain as POWs and lived in luxury in Trent Park. This was done to make them feel relaxed. However, they were being listened to by 100 ‘listeners’. They revealed secrets about the holocaust, events in Berlin, Hitler's madness and V2 rocket bases.
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