India invented the Number System. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.
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The first telephone book was one page long and had only 50 names in it.
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The World Trade Center towers used to have two zip codes, 10047-10048, one for each building.
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The life expectancy in 1900 was just 47 years.
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In 1958, a nuclear bomb was lost somewhere along the swampy coast of Georgia. Its whereabouts remain a mystery to this day.
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Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
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