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    The average life span of a peasant during the medieval ages was 25 years.
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    The great wall of China is 1,400 miles long!
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    If a surgeon in Ancient Egypt lost a patient while performing an operation, his hands were cut off.
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    The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal.
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    Ching Shih
    Ching Shih
    Ching Shih, once a prostitute, became one of the most powerful pirates to have ever sailed. She commanded one of the most formidable pirate fleets in all of China during the early 1800s, with hundreds of ships under her command.
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    Leonardo Da Vinci predicted the mass use of solar energy as long ago as 1447.
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    Because metal was scarce; the Oscars given out during World War II were made of plaster.
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    India invented the Number System. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.
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