In 1542, French aristocrat Marguerite De La Rocque survived being marooned for 2 years alone on a remote island off the coast of Quebec.
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There’s a Swedish power metal band called “Sabaton” who teach history through their music, including an album devoted to teaching about World War Two.
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Napoleon had conquered Italy by the time he was twenty-six.
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The Taj Mahal took 20 years and 20 thousand men to finish!
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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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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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