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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The University of Oxford (teaching since 1096) predates the Aztec empire (1428 - 1521).
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The oldest stone tools found are dated from 2.7 - 2.9 million years ago. The species that made these tools is unknown.
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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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Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
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Napoleon had conquered Italy by the time he was twenty-six.
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"Yo momma" jokes/insults were invented by Shakespeare.
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