Writer Graham Greene once came second in a 1949 ‘write like Graham Greene’ contest.
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Denmark has been inhabited since around 12,500 BC and agriculture has been evident since 3,900 BC.
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Louis Braille, the inventor of the reading and writing system for the blind, perfected it when he was just 15.
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Hurricane Matthew unearthed at least a dozen Civil War cannonballs on Folly Island, South Carolina.
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Even though the Hindenburg was inflated with 7 million cubic feet of highly flammable hydrogen gas, it had a smoking room.
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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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