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    London's Pall Mall became the first street lit by gaslight in 1807!
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    The University of Oxford (teaching since 1096) predates the Aztec empire (1428 - 1521).
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    Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
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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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    Derinkuyu Underground City
    Derinkuyu Underground City
    In 1963, a man found a mysterious room behind a wall in his home that lead to a huge underground city that once housed up to 20,000 people, complete with schools, livestock pens, and food stores, dating back over a millennium.
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    The first coast-to-coast telephone line was established in 1914.
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    The first ever patent in the UK was Aaron Rathbone & Roger Burges, Map makers in 1618!
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    There is a 600 year old 240 paged book called the Voynich Manuscript, that’s written language is still completely unknown today.
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