The average life span of a peasant during the medieval ages was 25 years.
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No one knows how many people died during the sinking of the Titanic.
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In 1963, the US Military created an artificial ring around Earth, similar to that of the planet Saturn. The ring was made of copper needles and was used for worldwide communications in the case that the Soviets disabled all other methods of communication.
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Grenades were invented in China over 1,000 years ago.
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Originally, Du Pont, Inc. was a tiny gun powder mill in New Jersey.
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After Germany surrendered in WW2, people in Moscow partied until the entire city actually ran out of vodka.
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Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards.
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