If Earth's history was condensed into twenty-four hours, life would've appeared at around 4am, land plants at 10:24pm, dinosaur extinction at 11:41pm, and human history would’ve began at 11:58:43pm.
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The ancient Egyptians bought jewelry for their pet crocodiles.
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Henry Ford was Charles Lindbergh's first passenger in the Spirit of St. Louis.
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During the Cold War, the US had planned to detonate a nuclear weapon on the moon.
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After Germany surrendered in WW2, people in Moscow partied until the entire city actually ran out of vodka.
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Grenades were invented in China over 1,000 years ago.
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Al Capone's armored limousine, after being seized by the feds, was later used to protect Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR), 32nd President of the US, after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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The Mint once considered producing doughnut-shaped coins!
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