In the great fire of London, in 1666, half of London was burnt down but only 6 people were injured.
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Early Romans used to use porcupine quills as toothpicks.
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The first bomb dropped on Germany in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin zoo!
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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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In 1982, a high school student from Los Angeles, California unscrambled the Rubik's Cube in 22.95 seconds.
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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 University of Oxford (teaching since 1096) predates the Aztec empire (1428 - 1521).
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Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
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