Contrary to popular belief, the first ironclad warships were built by Korea in the 16th century.
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Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
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No one knows how many people died during the sinking of the Titanic.
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Although Nostradamus died in the middle of 1566, his 1567 almanac was published because he had the foresight to prepare it before his death.
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The first bomb dropped on Germany in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin zoo!
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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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