The Taj Mahal took 20 years and 20 thousand men to finish!
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The site where the Parthenon was built had to be cleared of hundreds of dinosaur bones (then called giants' bones) before construction could begin.
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Cleopatra wasn't Egyptian; she was Greek.
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In 1982, a high school student from Los Angeles, California unscrambled the Rubik's Cube in 22.95 seconds.
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In Ancient Egypt, some people paid their taxes in honey.
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There was a bear called Wojtek who was adopted by Polish soldiers during WW2. It carried ammunition, wrestled with soldiers, and drank beer.
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Jericho is the oldest walled city in the world at 9,000 yrs old!
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