India invented the Number System. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.
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Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox.
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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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In 1518, a "dancing plague" struck Strasbourg, Alsace, whereby hundreds of people danced fervently in the streets over the period of a month. Some suffered heart attacks or strokes, and many others died from sheer exhaustion. It remains unexplained.
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Romans used a plant called Silphium as contraception. They had so much sex that they drove it into extinction.
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The first ever patent in the UK was Aaron Rathbone & Roger Burges, Map makers in 1618!
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Napoleon had conquered Italy by the time he was twenty-six.
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