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Did You Know? The first, and largest, pyramid at Giza was built by the pharaoh Khufu.

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Did You Know? On February 10, 2009, two communications satellites accidentally collided above the Taymyr Peninsula in Siberia.

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Did You Know? First parachute jump is made over Paris

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Did You Know? France was still executing people by guillotine when the first Star Wars movie came out.

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Did You Know? William Hill Brown is generally believed to have written the first American novel, "The Power of Sympathy," published in Boston in 1791, which relates a tragic love story.

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Did You Know? The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

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Did You Know? The Catholic Church once exhumed the rotting corpse of a deceased Pope and put him on trial.

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Did You Know? The idea of contact lenses was first introduced by Leonardo da Vinci in 1508.

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Did You Know? The Beatles showed their support for the US civil rights movement by refusing to play in concerts where audiences were segregated.

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Did You Know? Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the construction of the building of the Great Pyramid.

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Did You Know? The first rugby club was formed in 1843

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Did You Know? In 1750’s cats came from Europe to America as pest controllers.

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Did You Know? Ireland’s oldest pub dates back to the year 900 CE.

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Did You Know? In 1889, the Queen of Italy, Margherita Savoy, ordered the first pizza delivery.

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Did You Know? Marcellus Gilmore Edson originally invented peanut butter to be marketed as product for people who had no teeth and could not chew on solid food.

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Did You Know? At weddings, the bride normally stands to the left of the groom so that his sword hand is free to defend against other suitors.

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Did You Know? More people have been to the moon than the bottom of the ocean.

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Did You Know? It is estimated that up to 1 million people died while constructing the Great Wall of China.

  Jun 17, 2019   0   109

Did You Know? Commonly mistaken as an ancient Greek tradition, the Olympics torch relay was actually a Nazi idea.

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Did You Know? The flag erected on the Moon during the historic Apollo 11 landing was purchased at a local Sears store for $5.50.

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Did You Know? Bubble wrap was originally designed to be used as a textured wallpaper.

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Did You Know? The Olympic flag has a white background, with five interlaced rings in the centre: blue, yellow, black, green and red. This design is symbolic; it represents the five continents of the world, united by Olympism, while the six colours are those that appear on all the national flags of the world at the present time.

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Did You Know? Coca-Cola was first served in 1886. At that time, only 9 colas were served in an average day, 3,285 a year. Today, 19,400 Coke products are consumed every second.

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Did You Know? Fredric Baur invented the Pringles can. When he passed away in 2008, his ashes were buried in one.

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Did You Know? Neil Armstrong stepped on the Moon with his left foot first.

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Did You Know? The Boston Marathon didn’t allow female runners until 1972.

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Did You Know? Until President Kennedy was killed, it wasn‘t a federal crime to assassinate the President.

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Did You Know? Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952, but he declined.

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Did You Know? Villagers in central China have been using dinosaur bones as medicine. They believed the bones were from dragons and had special healing powers!

  Nov 15, 2018   0   221

Did You Know? The song Jingle Bells was originally written for Thanksgiving.

  Oct 26, 2018   0   607

Did You Know? The Eiffel Tower was originally intended for Barcelona, Spain, but the project was rejected.

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Did You Know? The first webcam was created in Cambridge University to check on the coffee levels of a coffee pot.

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Did You Know? During the 18th century, you could pay your admission ticket to the zoo in London by bringing a cat or a dog to feed the lions.

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Did You Know? The Statue of Liberty was originally intended for Egypt.

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Did You Know? From 1814 to 1830, the flag of the Kingdom of France was plain white.

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Did You Know? After the fall of the Roman Empire, the technology to make concrete was lost for 1000 years.

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Did You Know? In the late 1600s, London was plagued by an attacker, called 'Whipping Tom', who would spank his victims with a rod and shout 'Spanko!' before running away.

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Did You Know? Fidel Castro has slept with over 35,000 women.

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Did You Know? Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire.

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Did You Know? If you were drafted during the American Civil War, you could legally pay someone else $300 to go in your place.

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Did You Know? Part of the White House was built by slaves.

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Did You Know? In 1863, Venezuela became the first modern country to abolish the death penalty for all crimes.

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Did You Know? The Mosque of Paris helped Jews escape the Nazis by giving them Muslim IDs during WWII.

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Did You Know? Ancient Romans celebrated 'Saturnalia', a festival in which slaves were treated as equals and are allowed to wear their masters' clothing.

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Did You Know? Adolf Fick, the inventor of contact lenses got the idea from popcorn kernels stuck in his teeth.

  Sep 27, 2018   0   306

Did You Know? Vincent Van Gogh's last words were, 'La tristesse durera toujours', which means, 'The sadness will last forever'.

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Did You Know? During World War II, prisoners in Canadian war camps were treated so well, many of them didn't want to leave when the war ended.

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Did You Know? In January 2013, Zimbabwean government bank balance was down to USD$217.

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Did You Know? The Pentagon has no marble because it was built during World War II, and Italy, the source of marble, was an enemy country.

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Did You Know? In 2008, Microsoft had offered to buy Yahoo for US$44.6 billion. Yahoo rejected the offer. In 2016, it was sold for just US$4.8 billion.

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