In the great fire of London, in 1666, half of London was burnt down but only 6 people were injured.
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Napoleon had conquered Italy by the time he was twenty-six.
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In 1700s, the deer skin was a common medium of exchange between the trading settlers and the native Red Indians in America. This is how a buck became a slang for a dollar.
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Ancient Romans at one time used human urine as an ingredient in their toothpaste.
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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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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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The first bomb dropped by the Allies on berlin in WW2 killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
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Grenades were invented in China over 1,000 years ago.
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