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    India invented the Number System. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.
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    "Yo momma" jokes/insults were invented by Shakespeare.
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    In 1897, Bayer, who is the maker of Aspirin, marketed the drug heroin.
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    Only eight men were killed in the battle of lexington!
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    Knocker-Up
    Knocker-Up
    Until the 1920s, there was a profession called 'knocker-up', which involved going from client to client and tapping on their windows (or banging on their doors) with long sticks until they woke up.
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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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    A monk had once written over a book that contained information about calculus that was written by Archimedes in ancient Greece that could have made us 100 or even 1000 years more mathematically and technologically advanced.
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    The oldest patented company logo is the red triangle of Bass beers!
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