The first telephone book was one page long and had only 50 names in it.
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Although Nostradamus died in the middle of 1566, his 1567 almanac was published because he had the foresight to prepare it before his death.
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India invented the Number System. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.
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The first bomb dropped on Germany in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin zoo!
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Genghis Khan exempted the poor and clergy from taxes, encouraged literacy, and established free religion, leading many peoples to join his empire before they were even conquered.
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Approximately 40% of the U.S. paper currency in circulation was counterfeit by the end of the Civil War.
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Modern humans first appeared about 200,000 years ago, but record keeping didn't begin until about 6,000 years ago. That means about 97% of human history is lost.
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During World War 1, starving wolves amassed in such great numbers that Germans and Russians had a temporary cease fire to fight off the wolf attacks.
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