The first coast-to-coast telephone line was established in 1914.
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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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The first ever patent in the UK was Aaron Rathbone & Roger Burges, Map makers in 1618!
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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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Jericho is the oldest walled city in the world at 9,000 yrs old!
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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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Leonardo Da Vinci loved animals so much that he used to buy caged animals at the market just to set them free.
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