During World War 1, starving wolves amassed in such great numbers that Germans and Russians had a temporary cease fire to fight off the wolf attacks.
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The Taj Mahal took 20 years and 20 thousand men to finish!
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The flushing toilet was invented in 1596, not by Thomas Crapper as most people think, but by Sir John Harington.
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The site where the Parthenon was built had to be cleared of hundreds of dinosaur bones (then called giants' bones) before construction could begin.
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Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
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There's a bar in Ireland (presently named Sean’s Bar) that was opened in 900AD.
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Ancient Greeks believed that redheads turned into vampires after they died.
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India invented the Number System. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.
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