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    India invented the Number System. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.
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    Clocks made before 1660 had only one hand - an hour hand.
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    In 1537, England's King Henry VII officially declared February 14th the holiday of St. Valentine's Day.
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    The first coast-to-coast telephone line was established in 1914.
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    Traces of cocaine were found on 99% of UK bank notes in a survey in London in 2000.
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    Approximately 40% of the U.S. paper currency in circulation was counterfeit by the end of the Civil War.
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