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  • In the spring of 1975, a baby in Detroit fell 14 stories and landed on Joseph Figlock, who was walking below. A few years later it happened again. Figlock and both babies survived.
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    (Added: Tue Jan 24 2006)
  • The first African-American to receive a Nobel Peace Prize was Ralph J. Bunche in 1950.
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    (Added: Thu Oct 31 2002)
  • Peter the Great executed his wife's lover, and forced her to keep her lover's head in a jar of alcohol in her bedroom.
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    (Added: Thu Jul 13 2006)
  • The average life span of a peasant during the medieval ages was 25 years.
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    (Added: Mon May 31 2004)
  • China is the world's oldest known continuous civilization.
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  • In 1281, the Mongol army of Kublai Khan tried to invade Japan but were ravaged by a hurricane that destroyed their fleet.
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    (Added: Thu Oct 31 2002)
  • Abdul Kassam Ismael, Grand Vizier of Persia in the tenth century, carried his library with him wherever he went. Four hundred camels carried the 117,000 volumes.
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    (Added: Sun Jan 22 2006)
  • Among the Buganda people of Uganda, the widows of a deceased king have the honour of drinking beer in which the dead king's entrails have been cleaned.
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    (Added: Thu Oct 31 2002)
  • Edward VIII did not officially become the King of England as he abdicated the throne to marry an American divorcee.
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    (Added: Thu Oct 31 2002)
  • In 1982, Larry Walters tied 24 weather balloons to his lawn chair in Los Angeles and climbed to an altitude of 16,000 feet.
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    (Added: Tue Jan 24 2006)
  • In 410 A.D. Alaric the Visigoth demanded that Rome give him three thousand pounds of pepper as ransom.
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    (Added: Sun Jan 22 2006)
  • The destruction of the Berlin Wall began when private citizens began to demolish entire sections of the Wall without interference from government officials on November 9, 1989.
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    (Added: Thu Oct 31 2002)
  • The Roman emperor Domitian took great pleasure in being secluded in his room for hours and catching flies and stabbing them with pens.
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    (Added: Tue Jan 24 2006)
  • Two objects have struck the earth with enough force to destroy a whole city. Each object, one in 1908 and again in 1947, struck regions of Siberia. Not one human being was hurt either time.
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    (Added: Tue Jan 24 2006)
  • Ukrainian monk, Dionysius Exiguus, created the modern day Christian calendar.
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    (Added: Thu Oct 31 2002)
  • On Sunday, December 7, 1941 at 7:55 AM, the attack on Pearl Harbor commenced.
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    (Added: Thu Oct 31 2002)
  • St. Patrick never really drove out any snakes from Ireland. This story was an analogy of how he drove paganism out of Ireland.
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    (Added: Tue Jan 24 2006)
  • The last land battle of the U.S. Civil War was fought in Texas.
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    (Added: Thu Oct 31 2002)
  • People drank gold powder mixed in with water in medieval Europe to relieve pain from sore limbs.
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    (Added: Thu Oct 31 2002)
  • There was a time in Japan where a wife being left handed was a ground for divorce.
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    (Added: Tue Jan 24 2006)
 
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