The world’s oldest calendar is 10,000 years old and is made up of 12 pits that appear to mimic moon phases.
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President Franklin Roosevelt moved Thanksgiving up by a week, so that the Christmas shopping season could start earlier.
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A secret room under the Medici Chapel is covered in charcoal sketches by Michelangelo, who lived there for three months while hiding from the Pope.
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When Apple began designating employee numbers, Steve Jobs was offended that Wozniak received #1 while he got #2. He believed he should be second to no one, so he took #0 instead.
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Scientists discovered a dinosaur tail perfectly preserved in amber in 2016. It’s full of feathers.
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The radiation levels at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant are so high that the robots sent to remove the plant’s melted fuel rods have died.
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Records suggest that, between 1529 and 1532, King Henry VIII gambled away almost a million pounds by today’s standards.
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Nikola Tesla once wrote a letter to the Red Cross saying he received a message from another planet.
