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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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    Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
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    High Heels were originally made for men in the 16th century.
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    Traces of cocaine were found on 99% of UK bank notes in a survey in London in 2000.
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    In 1963, the US Military created an artificial ring around Earth, similar to that of the planet Saturn. The ring was made of copper needles and was used for worldwide communications in the case that the Soviets disabled all other methods of communication.
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    Knocker-Up
    Knocker-Up
    Until the 1920s, there was a profession called 'knocker-up', which involved going from client to client and tapping on their windows (or banging on their doors) with long sticks until they woke up.
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    In 1897, Bayer, who is the maker of Aspirin, marketed the drug heroin.
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    Napoleon had conquered Italy by the time he was twenty-six.
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