Just before the US started bombing Baghdad, nearly $1 billion dollars was stolen from the Central Bank of Iraq and is now the largest bank robbery in history.
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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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Shakespeare invented over 1,700 words that we use today.
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It's still possible to see the division between East and West Germany due to different light bulbs.
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Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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