There's no evidence that pirates made people walk the plank.
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Cleopatra married two of her brothers.
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Leonardo Da Vinci predicted the mass use of solar energy as long ago as 1447.
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Tickling was a form of torture used in ancient China on nobility because it left no mark and recovery was quick.
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Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox.
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London's Pall Mall became the first street lit by gaslight in 1807!
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The first telephone book was one page long and had only 50 names in it.
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Approximately 25,000 workers died during the building of the Panama Canal, and approximately 20,000 of them contracted malaria and yellow fever.
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