No one knows how many people died during the sinking of the Titanic.
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Clocks made before 1660 had only one hand - an hour hand.
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Modern humans first appeared about 200,000 years ago, but record keeping didn't begin until about 6,000 years ago. That means about 97% of human history is lost.
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In the 1830s, a Greek prime minister tried to spread the potato in Greece but people weren't interested so he put armed guards in front of shipments of potatoes so people would think they were important. People then started stealing these potatoes so much that the crop spread to all of Greece.
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The Canadian province of New Brunswick (which was part of the UK at the time) had a bloodless war with the US state of Maine in 1839
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India invented the Number System. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.
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The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.
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