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    Derinkuyu Underground City
    Derinkuyu Underground City
    In 1963, a man found a mysterious room behind a wall in his home that lead to a huge underground city that once housed up to 20,000 people, complete with schools, livestock pens, and food stores, dating back over a millennium.
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    Until President Kennedy was killed, it wasn't a federal crime to assassinate the President.
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    The Taj Mahal took 20 years and 20 thousand men to finish!
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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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    The range of a medieval long-bow is 220 yards.
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    The first bomb dropped on Germany in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin zoo!
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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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    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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