If Earth's history was condensed into twenty-four hours, life would've appeared at around 4am, land plants at 10:24pm, dinosaur extinction at 11:41pm, and human history would’ve began at 11:58:43pm.
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The Taj Mahal took 20 years and 20 thousand men to finish!
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A B-25 bomber airplane crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building on July 28, 1945.
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In the 1930's, American track star Jesse Owens used to race against horses and dogs to earn a living.
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During World War II, Uncle Ben's was the exclusive supplier of rice to the U.S. Armed Forces.
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The Titanic is about as long as the Empire State building is tall.
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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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The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.
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