The University of Oxford (teaching since 1096) predates the Aztec empire (1428 - 1521).
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The first coast-to-coast telephone line was established in 1914.
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In 1958, a nuclear bomb was lost somewhere along the swampy coast of Georgia. Its whereabouts remain a mystery to this day.
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Canada's new flag, with its maple leaf design, was unfurled in 1965 in Ottawa!
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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 oldest glowing lightbulb was first switched on in 1901 and lives in fire stations in Livermore, CA. It is known as the Centennial Light.
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In 1980, the city of Detroit presented Saddam Hussein with a key to the city.
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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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