Modern humans first appeared about 200,000 years ago, but record keeping didn't begin until about 6,000 years ago. That means about 97% of human history is lost.
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Napoleon Bonaparte thought torture should be abolished because the information obtained from it is worthless.
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In 1542, French aristocrat Marguerite De La Rocque survived being marooned for 2 years alone on a remote island off the coast of Quebec.
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In Ancient Greece, if a woman watched even one Olympic event, she was executed.
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Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards.
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Clocks made before 1660 had only one hand - an hour hand.
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No one knows how many people died during the sinking of the Titanic.
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