In 1537, England's King Henry VII officially declared February 14th the holiday of St. Valentine's Day.
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There’s a Swedish power metal band called “Sabaton” who teach history through their music, including an album devoted to teaching about World War Two.
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In 1799, a boy found a 17lb. rock in a creek in North Carolina and used it as a doorstop. It was actually gold.
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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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Cleopatra wasn't Egyptian; she was Greek.
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The great wall of China is 1,400 miles long!
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Early Romans used to use porcupine quills as toothpicks.
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