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    Candle Clocks
    Candle Clocks
    Before clocks, there were candle clocks that when burned, indicated the passage of periods of time. To set an alarm, you pushed a nail into the desired point and the nail would fall and clank on the metal holder.
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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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    The Grateful Dead were once called 'The Warlocks'.
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    In Ancient Greece, if a woman watched even one Olympic event, she was executed.
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    There's a bar in Ireland (presently named Sean’s Bar) that was opened in 900AD.
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    Modern humans first appeared about 200,000 years ago, but record keeping didn't begin until about 6,000 years ago. That means about 97% of human history is lost.
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    A singing birthday card has more computing power than the allied forces in 1945.
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    The universally popular Hershey bar was used overseas during World War II as currency.
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