A monk had once written over a book that contained information about calculus that was written by Archimedes in ancient Greece that could have made us 100 or even 1000 years more mathematically and technologically advanced.
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The first telephone book was one page long and had only 50 names in it.
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Pilgrims did not eat with forks. They only used spoons, knives and their fingers.
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February 1865 is the only month in recorded history to not have a full moon.
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In the great fire of London, in 1666, half of London was burnt down but only 6 people were injured.
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There are pictures of Knights fighting Snails in old Medieval manuscripts - and nobody knows why.
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If Earth's history was condensed into twenty-four hours, life would've appeared at around 4am, land plants at 10:24pm, dinosaur extinction at 11:41pm, and human history would’ve began at 11:58:43pm.
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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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