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    Derinkuyu Underground City
    Derinkuyu Underground City
    In 1963, a man found a mysterious room behind a wall in his home that lead to a huge underground city that once housed up to 20,000 people, complete with schools, livestock pens, and food stores, dating back over a millennium.
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    India invented the Number System. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.
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    Cleopatra wasn't Egyptian; she was Greek.
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    In Ancient Greece, if a woman watched even one Olympic event, she was executed.
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    The oldest stone tools found are dated from 2.7 - 2.9 million years ago. The species that made these tools is unknown.
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    A singing birthday card has more computing power than the allied forces in 1945.
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    In the 1830s, a Greek prime minister tried to spread the potato in Greece but people weren't interested so he put armed guards in front of shipments of potatoes so people would think they were important. People then started stealing these potatoes so much that the crop spread to all of Greece.
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    The great wall of China is 1,400 miles long!
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