Traces of cocaine were found on 99% of UK bank notes in a survey in London in 2000.
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Recently, archaeologists excavating in the old medieval town of Odense in Denmark uncovered 700-year-old barrels of poop - and, to their surprise, they still smelt.
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The time interval from first sighting of the iceberg that sank the Titanic to impact was a little over 30 seconds.
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In 1958, a nuclear bomb was lost somewhere along the swampy coast of Georgia. Its whereabouts remain a mystery to this day.
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India invented the Number System. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.
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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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Clocks made before 1660 had only one hand - an hour hand.
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