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    20 years ago, there were only 130 websites, Google wasn't around, and you had to pay for an email account through an ISP.
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    In 1537, England's King Henry VII officially declared February 14th the holiday of St. Valentine's Day.
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    Nicholas Alkemade
    Nicholas Alkemade
    Nicholas Alkemade, a pilot during World War 2, survived falling 18,000 feet after jumping from a burning Lancaster bomber.
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    Leonardo Da Vinci predicted the mass use of solar energy as long ago as 1447.
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    Alligator snapping turtles can live for over 150 years. Scientists know this because some of the turtles had musket balls in their stomachs.
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    In 1949, an official boxing match between a bear and a man was held. The bear won.
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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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    There is a 600 year old 240 paged book called the Voynich Manuscript, that’s written language is still completely unknown today.
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