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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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    "Yo momma" jokes/insults were invented by Shakespeare.
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    The life expectancy in 1900 was just 47 years.
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    Traces of cocaine were found on 99% of UK bank notes in a survey in London in 2000.
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    The first bomb dropped by the Allies on berlin in WW2 killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
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    Candle Clocks
    Candle Clocks
    Before clocks, there were candle clocks that when burned, indicated the passage of periods of time. To set an alarm, you pushed a nail into the desired point and the nail would fall and clank on the metal holder.
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    The ancient Egyptians thought the function of the brain was to produce snot.
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