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“Hatshepsut was the most successful female pharaoh of ancient Egypt. But after her death, her successor destroyed her statues to obliterate her memory.”

2

“There is a church in the Czech Republic where 40,000 skeletons decorate the church. Skeleton chandeliers, coats of arms, bone garlands etc.”

3

“In Ancient Rome, citizens and soldiers drank an average of 100 gallons (~450 litres) of wine per year.

4

“In Ancient Mesopotamia every woman to go to the Temple of Ishtar at least once in her lifetime and have s— with whoever picked her. In Mesopotamian s–, men preferred to take “’he female role’ and there's a whole list of the positions they enjoyed.”

5

“In 1912, Tokyo's Mayor Ozaki gifted the United States 3,000 cherry blossom trees as a symbol of friendship between Japan and the U.S.”

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“The Milky Way Galaxy is being pulled toward a mysterious area in space called ‘The Great Attractor’ at about 6000km/s. Whatever it is, we can't see it from Earth because it's obscured the hub of our galaxy.”

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“Millions of years ago Antarctica was once a rainforest that dinosaurs inhabited.”

9

“Most tropical rainforest plants are considered to be evergreens.”

10

“The Eiffel Tower in Paris was originally intended to be a temporary exhibit built to celebrate the 1889 world’s fair and was almost torn down and scrapped in 1909.”

11

“In Ancient Rome some condemned prisoners were executed onstage at the theater as ‘actors’ for famous death scenes.”

12

“The oldest D20 dice was uncovered in Egypt and dates back around 30 BC.”

13

“NASA plans to retire the International Space Station by 2031 by crashing it into the Pacific Ocean.”

14

“Lars Onsager (Nobel Laureate in Chemistry) taught physics courses that were so difficult and incomprehensible they were nicknamed ‘Advanced Norwegian I’ and ‘Advanced Norwegian II.’”

15

“Tourism was popular in ancient rome. The most popular attraction were the pyramids of giza, where local tour guides fed misinformation to the Romans to draw them in and profit from them.”

16

“According to international space law, space is defined as common heritage of humanity, which makes territorial claims in space prohibited. The main purposes of this law are to prevent colonial claims and militarization of space.”

17

“[The] Andromeda galaxy has already started merging with our Milky Way.”

18

“Just like how the Greeks had seven liberal arts, the ancient Chinese had four skills that every scholar should know: calligraphy, painting, music, and Go.”

19

“The New York City Ballet has a shoe budget of $780,000: the dancers go through 500 to 800 pairs of pointe shoes performing The Nutcracker over 6 weeks, and use up even more pairs in 2 weeks performing Swan Lake.”

20

“The opera house in Paris that the Phantom of the Opera is based on actually has an underground lake beneath it, just like in the book and musical.”

21

“A Piet Mondrian painting was hung upside-down for 75 years before its inversion was noticed.”

22

“There’s a sound in Gustav Mahler’s 6th symphony that requires a giant hammer(or similar equipment) to make — now called the ‘Mahler hammer.’”

23

“Electric vehicles predate the model T, and in the year 1900, comprised 38% of cars on the road.”

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“The Art Deco spire of the Empire State Building was originally designed to serve as a mooring mast for Zeppelins and other airships, although it was found that high winds made this impossible and the plan was abandoned.”

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“Epicureanism is a philosophy based on the teachings of Epicurus, founded around 307 B.C. It teaches that the greatest good is to seek modest pleasures in order to attain a state of tranquillity, freedom from fear (‘ataraxia’) and absence from bodily pain (‘aponia’).”