The University of Oxford (teaching since 1096) predates the Aztec empire (1428 - 1521).
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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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London's Pall Mall became the first street lit by gaslight in 1807!
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Queen Elizabeth II served as a mechanic and driver in World War 2.
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The Grateful Dead were once called 'The Warlocks'.
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Cleopatra wasn't Egyptian; she was Greek.
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Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
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