Canada's new flag, with its maple leaf design, was unfurled in 1965 in Ottawa!
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India invented the Number System. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.
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Leonardo Da Vinci predicted the mass use of solar energy as long ago as 1447.
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Kung Fu actually originated in India, but was developed further in China.
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The site where the Parthenon was built had to be cleared of hundreds of dinosaur bones (then called giants' bones) before construction could begin.
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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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In 1897, Bayer, who is the maker of Aspirin, marketed the drug heroin.
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