The first semi-permanent settlements appeared in Florida around 5000 B.C.
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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 Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.
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Originally, Du Pont, Inc. was a tiny gun powder mill in New Jersey.
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Pierre Jaquet-Droz, a watchmaker, 240 years ago invented a robot that could write, and the parts could be interchanged to say whatever you want.
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Clocks made before 1660 had only one hand - an hour hand.
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During the 1600's, boys and girls in England wore dresses until they were about seven years old.
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