The Taj Mahal took 20 years and 20 thousand men to finish!
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The range of a medieval long-bow is 220 yards.
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A singing birthday card has more computing power than the allied forces in 1945.
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The native Americans planted three sisters (corn, beans, and squash) together so that they would benefit each other. The corn provides a structure for the beans to climb. The beans provide the nitrogen to the soil, and the squash spreads along the ground preventing weeds.
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There's no evidence that pirates made people walk the plank.
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In Ancient Greece, if a woman watched even one Olympic event, she was executed.
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Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
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The first bomb dropped by the Allies on berlin in WW2 killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
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