In Ancient Greece, if a woman watched even one Olympic event, she was executed.
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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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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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The average life span of a peasant during the medieval ages was 25 years.
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During the Cold War, the US had planned to detonate a nuclear weapon on the moon.
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In ancient Rome it was considered a sign of leadership to be born with a crooked nose!
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Tickling was a form of torture used in ancient China on nobility because it left no mark and recovery was quick.
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Early American humans hunted car-size armadillos and used their shells for houses.
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