The first semi-permanent settlements appeared in Florida around 5000 B.C.
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Napoleon had conquered Italy by the time he was twenty-six.
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Pierre Jaquet-Droz, a watchmaker, 240 years ago invented a robot that could write, and the parts could be interchanged to say whatever you want.
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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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Che Guevara suffered from asthma!
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No one knows how many people died during the sinking of the Titanic.
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