The Taj Mahal took 20 years and 20 thousand men to finish!
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Approximately 25,000 workers died during the building of the Panama Canal, and approximately 20,000 of them contracted malaria and yellow fever.
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English sailors were referred to as "limeys" because sailors added lime juice to their diet to combat scurvy.
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Henry Ford was Charles Lindbergh's first passenger in the Spirit of St. Louis.
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In 1542, French aristocrat Marguerite De La Rocque survived being marooned for 2 years alone on a remote island off the coast of Quebec.
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A B-25 bomber airplane crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building on July 28, 1945.
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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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In Ancient Greece, if a woman watched even one Olympic event, she was executed.
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