The Statue of Liberty was a gift of friendship resulting from the diplomatic relationship between the United States and France.
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Napoleon had conquered Italy by the time he was twenty-six.
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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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If Earth's history was condensed into twenty-four hours, life would've appeared at around 4am, land plants at 10:24pm, dinosaur extinction at 11:41pm, and human history would’ve began at 11:58:43pm.
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The Mint once considered producing doughnut-shaped coins!
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A female photographer in the 50s took tens of thousands of pictures and remained remained unknown until her death. She is now considered one of the most important street photographers ever.
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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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It is estimated that there is in excess of 3,000,000,000 bibles been sold throughout the world!
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