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    In 1897, Bayer, who is the maker of Aspirin, marketed the drug heroin.
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    Leonardo Da Vinci predicted the mass use of solar energy as long ago as 1447.
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    The average life span of a peasant during the medieval ages was 25 years.
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    Jericho is the oldest walled city in the world at 9,000 yrs old!
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    No one knows how many people died during the sinking of the Titanic.
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    In medieval Italy, if a man was caught kissing a woman in public, he had to marry her whether he liked it or not.
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