The great wall of China is 1,400 miles long!
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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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During the 1600's, boys and girls in England wore dresses until they were about seven years old.
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Beethoven, was told by a music teacher that he had no talent for music. In fact, this teacher once remarked, “As a composer he is hopeless.”
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If Earth's history was condensed into twenty-four hours, life would've appeared at around 4am, land plants at 10:24pm, dinosaur extinction at 11:41pm, and human history would’ve began at 11:58:43pm.
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Leonardo Da Vinci predicted the mass use of solar energy as long ago as 1447.
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The first coast-to-coast telephone line was established in 1914.
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The University of Oxford (teaching since 1096) predates the Aztec empire (1428 - 1521).
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