Modern humans first appeared about 200,000 years ago, but record keeping didn't begin until about 6,000 years ago. That means about 97% of human history is lost.
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In Ancient Egypt, some people paid their taxes in honey.
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No one knows how many people died during the sinking of the Titanic.
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France’s King Louis XIV was offered biological weapons by an Italian chemist. He not only refused, but also paid the chemist an annual salary to never reveal the technology to anyone else.
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The U.S. motto, 'In God We Trust', was not adopted as the national slogan until 1956.
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The first semi-permanent settlements appeared in Florida around 5000 B.C.
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India invented the Number System. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.
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In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
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