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 first bomb dropped on Germany in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin zoo!
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The oldest glowing lightbulb was first switched on in 1901 and lives in fire stations in Livermore, CA. It is known as the Centennial Light.
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Recently, archaeologists excavating in the old medieval town of Odense in Denmark uncovered 700-year-old barrels of poop - and, to their surprise, they still smelt.
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Henry Ford was Charles Lindbergh's first passenger in the Spirit of St. Louis.
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In 1897, Bayer, who is the maker of Aspirin, marketed the drug heroin.
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