The first semi-permanent settlements appeared in Florida around 5000 B.C.
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During the Cold War, the US had planned to detonate a nuclear weapon on the moon.
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A baboon called Jackie became a private in the South African army in World War I.
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In the 1830s, a Greek prime minister tried to spread the potato in Greece but people weren't interested so he put armed guards in front of shipments of potatoes so people would think they were important. People then started stealing these potatoes so much that the crop spread to all of Greece.
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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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Although Nostradamus died in the middle of 1566, his 1567 almanac was published because he had the foresight to prepare it before his death.
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The ancient Egyptians thought the function of the brain was to produce snot.
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