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    Mahatma Gandhi used to travel with his goat so that he could have fresh milk.
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    The oldest stone tools found are dated from 2.7 - 2.9 million years ago. The species that made these tools is unknown.
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    Chinese General With Only 100 Men Made An Army of 150,000 Retreat
    According to the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Shu general Zhuge Liang had to defend a town with a mere 100 troops against an army of 150,000. He hid his men, flung open the gates, and sat on the walls playing a lute. The opposing general of Wei, Sima Yi, certain it was a trap, ordered a retreat.
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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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    In 1897, Bayer, who is the maker of Aspirin, marketed the drug heroin.
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    Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards.
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    The first semi-permanent settlements appeared in Florida around 5000 B.C.
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    The time interval from first sighting of the iceberg that sank the Titanic to impact was a little over 30 seconds.
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