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    The life expectancy in 1900 was just 47 years.
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    India invented the Number System. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.
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    Chinese General With Only 100 Men Made An Army of 150,000 Retreat
    According to the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Shu general Zhuge Liang had to defend a town with a mere 100 troops against an army of 150,000. He hid his men, flung open the gates, and sat on the walls playing a lute. The opposing general of Wei, Sima Yi, certain it was a trap, ordered a retreat.
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    The original Cinderella was Egyptian and wore fur slippers.
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    The first bomb dropped by the Allies on berlin in WW2 killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
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    There’s a Swedish power metal band called “Sabaton” who teach history through their music, including an album devoted to teaching about World War Two.
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    The Taj Mahal took 20 years and 20 thousand men to finish!
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    If a surgeon in Ancient Egypt lost a patient while performing an operation, his hands were cut off.
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