The Grateful Dead were once called 'The Warlocks'.
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After Germany surrendered in WW2, people in Moscow partied until the entire city actually ran out of vodka.
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The range of a medieval long-bow is 220 yards.
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There was a bear called Wojtek who was adopted by Polish soldiers during WW2. It carried ammunition, wrestled with soldiers, and drank beer.
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The ancient Egyptians bought jewelry for their pet crocodiles.
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The Taj Mahal took 20 years and 20 thousand men to finish!
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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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There is a 600 year old 240 paged book called the Voynich Manuscript, that’s written language is still completely unknown today.
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