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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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    Che Guevara suffered from asthma!
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    In 1700s, the deer skin was a common medium of exchange between the trading settlers and the native Red Indians in America. This is how a buck became a slang for a dollar.
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    The Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers founded in 1744, is the world's oldest golf club!
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    In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
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    When Charles Darwin first discovered the Galapagos Tortoises, he tried to ride them!
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    The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal.
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    The site where the Parthenon was built had to be cleared of hundreds of dinosaur bones (then called giants' bones) before construction could begin.
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