February 1865 is the only month in recorded history to not have a full moon.
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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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The exact cause of death and burial site of Genghis Khan is unknown, because all of the 2000 funeral guests and 800 soldiers were killed in order to preserve the secret.
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Scientists are excavating the ruins of a major civilization which pre-dates both the pyramids and Stonehenge by over 7,000 years. In 15 years, they have uncovered only about 5% of the site.
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In Ancient Greece, if a woman watched even one Olympic event, she was executed.
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Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards.
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