It is estimated that there is in excess of 3,000,000,000 bibles been sold throughout the world!
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The flushing toilet was invented in 1596, not by Thomas Crapper as most people think, but by Sir John Harington.
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The Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers founded in 1744, is the world's oldest golf club!
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Leonardo Da Vinci made a robotic lion in 1515 that would walk, sway, open its mouth and move its tail - it even had a compartment that opened to present flowers.
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Ancient Greeks believed that redheads turned into vampires after they died.
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There's no evidence that pirates made people walk the plank.
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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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Approximately 25,000 workers died during the building of the Panama Canal, and approximately 20,000 of them contracted malaria and yellow fever.
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