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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If a surgeon in Ancient Egypt lost a patient while performing an operation, his hands were cut off.
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There's a bar in Ireland (presently named Sean’s Bar) that was opened in 900AD.
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Pilgrims did not eat with forks. They only used spoons, knives and their fingers.
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Genghis Khan exempted the poor and clergy from taxes, encouraged literacy, and established free religion, leading many peoples to join his empire before they were even conquered.
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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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