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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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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Napoleon had conquered Italy by the time he was twenty-six.
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The first bomb dropped on Germany in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin zoo!
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Tickling was a form of torture used in ancient China on nobility because it left no mark and recovery was quick.
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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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The flushing toilet was invented in 1596, not by Thomas Crapper as most people think, but by Sir John Harington.
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