The flushing toilet was invented in 1596, not by Thomas Crapper as most people think, but by Sir John Harington.
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The Titanic is about as long as the Empire State building is tall.
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The Grateful Dead were once called 'The Warlocks'.
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In Ancient Greece, if a woman watched even one Olympic event, she was executed.
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Originally, Du Pont, Inc. was a tiny gun powder mill in New Jersey.
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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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