The first semi-permanent settlements appeared in Florida around 5000 B.C.
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The ancient Egyptians thought the function of the brain was to produce snot.
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The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal.
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If a surgeon in Ancient Egypt lost a patient while performing an operation, his hands were cut off.
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In 1897, Bayer, who is the maker of Aspirin, marketed the drug heroin.
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"Yo momma" jokes/insults were invented by Shakespeare.
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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 1982, a high school student from Los Angeles, California unscrambled the Rubik's Cube in 22.95 seconds.
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