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Napoleon Bonaparte was once attacked by a horde of rabbits during a hunt.
Every decision in your family history contributed to you.
Extreme poverty has declined significantly over the past century.
Literacy rates are higher now than ever before in history.
Global life expectancy has more than doubled in the past 200 years.
Most humans who ever lived never traveled far from their birthplace.
The majority of humans who ever lived were farmers.
More people are alive today than at any point in history.
More than half of all people who have ever lived lived before 1800.
Roughly half of all humans who have ever lived died from infectious diseases.
The U.S. once detonated nuclear weapons underwater near its own ships for testing.
The government has accidentally lost multiple nuclear weapons that were never recovered.
The CIA once seriously researched using cats as listening devices in a project called Acoustic Kitty.
Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the construction of the pyramids.
Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire.
Cowpox pus was used in the first vaccine which eradicated smallpox.
In 1796, Edward Jenner developed the world's first vaccine by using cowpox material to induce immunity against smallpox, a breakthrough that led to the disease's global eradication.
The Anglo-Zanzibar War in 1896 is the shortest war on record, lasting only 38 minutes.
Economist Arthur Laffer famously sketched the Laffer Curve on a napkin during a dinner meeting in the 1970s.
Tug of war was in the Olympics from 1900 to 1920.
Neil Armstrong’s hair was sold in 2004 for $3,000.
Competitive art used to be an Olympic sport.
Napoleon Bonaparte was once attacked by a swarm of rabbits.
Abraham Lincoln was a licensed bartender.
Some people have survived falling from airplanes without parachutes.
The last guillotine execution happened in 1977.
Humans reached the Moon less than 70 years after powered flight.
Cleopatra lived closer to modern times than pyramid construction.
Humans reached the Moon less than 70 years after powered flight.
Cleopatra lived closer to modern times than pyramid construction.
Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire.
Humans reached the Moon less than 70 years after powered flight.
Humans reached the Moon less than 70 years after powered flight.
Humans reached the Moon less than 70 years after powered flight.
Cleopatra lived closer to modern times than pyramid construction.
Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire.
Humans reached the Moon less than 70 years after powered flight.
Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire.
Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire.
The last guillotine execution happened in 1977.
Humans reached the Moon less than 70 years after powered flight.
The pyramids were already ancient when mammoths still existed.
Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire.
Cleopatra lived closer to modern times than pyramid construction.
The pyramids were already ancient when mammoths still existed.
Humans reached the Moon less than 70 years after powered flight.
Cleopatra lived closer to modern times than pyramid construction.
Cleopatra lived closer to modern times than pyramid construction.
Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire.
The last guillotine execution happened in 1977.