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    Che Guevara suffered from asthma!
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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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    "Yo momma" jokes/insults were invented by Shakespeare.
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    The World Trade Center towers used to have two zip codes, 10047-10048, one for each building.
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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 University of Oxford (teaching since 1096) predates the Aztec empire (1428 - 1521).
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    Romans used a plant called Silphium as contraception. They had so much sex that they drove it into extinction.
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    In 2011, a couple bought a box of textbooks for $10. Inside, they found a 25-cent bill signed by the president of the Republic of Texas, Sam Houston, and subsequently sold it for $63,250.
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