If a surgeon in Ancient Egypt lost a patient while performing an operation, his hands were cut off.
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If Earth's history was condensed into twenty-four hours, life would've appeared at around 4am, land plants at 10:24pm, dinosaur extinction at 11:41pm, and human history would’ve began at 11:58:43pm.
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Genghis Khan exempted the poor and clergy from taxes, encouraged literacy, and established free religion, leading many peoples to join his empire before they were even conquered.
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Originally, Du Pont, Inc. was a tiny gun powder mill in New Jersey.
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A singing birthday card has more computing power than the allied forces in 1945.
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The ancient Egyptians bought jewelry for their pet crocodiles.
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Che Guevara suffered from asthma!
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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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