The University of Oxford (teaching since 1096) predates the Aztec empire (1428 - 1521).
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The Titanic is about as long as the Empire State building is tall.
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Cleopatra wasn't Egyptian; she was Greek.
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The first telephone book was one page long and had only 50 names in it.
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Nazi leader Adolf Hitler had only one testicle.
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Recently, archaeologists excavating in the old medieval town of Odense in Denmark uncovered 700-year-old barrels of poop - and, to their surprise, they still smelt.
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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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