Approximately 25,000 workers died during the building of the Panama Canal, and approximately 20,000 of them contracted malaria and yellow fever.
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Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
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The first bomb dropped on Germany in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin zoo!
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The University of Oxford (teaching since 1096) predates the Aztec empire (1428 - 1521).
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The great wall of China is 1,400 miles long!
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