London's Pall Mall became the first street lit by gaslight in 1807!
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Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox.
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During the 1600's, boys and girls in England wore dresses until they were about seven years old.
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In Ancient Egypt, some people paid their taxes in honey.
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Jericho is the oldest walled city in the world at 9,000 yrs old!
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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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During the Black Plague, it was thought that bad smells were the cause of the plague. "Plague Doctors" therefore wore masks with long beak-like noses stuffed with flowers or smoke to hide the smells.
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Nazi leader Adolf Hitler had only one testicle.
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