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The first electronic digital computer (called ENIAC – the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator) was developed in 1946 and contained over 18,000 vacuum tubes.
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The most beautiful and incredible gift of love is the monument Taj Mahal in India. Built by Mughal Emperor Shahjahan as a memorial to his wife it stands as the emblem of the eternal love story. Work on the Taj Mahal began in 1634 and continued for almost 22 years and required the labor of 20,000 workers from all over India and Central Asia.
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Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian, and had only ONE testicle.
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Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia
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Shakespeare’s famous Globe theatre, a multi-story complex that held over 3,000 people, was built from the timbers of an older theater called (unimaginatively) The Theatre. The Theatre was dismantled and transported across London and re-erected on the other side of the river in under a month in the middle of one of London’s coldest winters.
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The first flushing toilet was invented in 1596 by John Harrington, but the idea didn’t take off in England.
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In ancient Rome, it was considered a sign of leadership to be born with a crooked nose.
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February 1865 is the only month is recorded history which does not have a full moon.
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The custom of shaking hands was originally intended to show that both parties were unarmed
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Christmas was not declared a national holiday in the US until 1890
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was xmas always celebrated on 25th December? A research says that Hazrat Essa was born in summer (In December, weather in Palestine is not summer) 
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The most beautiful and incredible gift of love is the monument Taj Mahal in India. Built by Mughal Emperor Shahjahan as a memorial to his wife it stands as the emblem of the eternal love story. Work on the Taj Mahal began in 1634 and continued for almost 22 years and required the labor of 20,000 workers from all over India and Central Asia.
and Shahjahan got cut hands of builders of the monument of his love
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don’t know exactly as far as I know yeah it was celebrated on 25th
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Russia’s October revolution is not celebrated in October because the calendar in use on the day of the revolution was the Julian calendar. When Russia adopted the Gregorian calendar the following year, October 25 ended up becoming November 7
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Helen Keller wasn’t born blind and deaf – it was an illness when she was one that caused her loss of sight and hearing. By the time her famous teacher came along at age seven, Helen was using 60 or so signs that she could use to communicate with her mother.
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Charles Lindbergh was not the first man to fly the Atlantic Ocean, although he was the first to have flown across it solo. The first flight had been done first in stages between May 8 and May 31, 1919, by the crew of the Navy-Curtiss NC-4 flying boat which took 24 days to complete its journey. The first truly non-stop transatlantic flight was made in 1919 by John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown in a modified Vickers Vimy bomber.
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Johannes Gutenberg was not the first to invent the printing press or movable type; these were in use in China and Korea centuries before. Gutenberg was the first European to use movable type, and he probably invented it independently; the printing press did have a larger influence on Western than on Eastern culture. Another misconception about Gutenberg is that the first thing he printed was the Latin Vulgate (known as the Gutenberg Bible). Gutenberg’s Bible was printed in Latin because he believed it would be more widely accessible to the common people. But prior to the Bible, he had printed a number of Catholic Church documents and papal letters.
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Many people believe that Hitler and the Nazis conceived of the idea of the first Autobahn (essentially a large motorway) in Germany (and the first laned free public motorway in the world). But in fact the autobahn was built in 1931 and opened by Konrad Adenauer, the Mayor of Cologne. This was two years before Hitler became Chancellor of Germany. Interestingly, however, the very first motorway (unlaned) was the pet project of a dictator: the Autostrada dei laghi was inaugaurated on the 21st of September 1924 in Milan during the rule of Benito Mussolini.
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Computers are much older than many people think and when you talk about the very first game, most people tend to think of Pong. Pong was invented in 1972 by Atari and it was an arcade style game that featured two opposing paddles and a ball with which you played virtual tennis. It was the first commercially successful video game and it launched the video game industry. But… Twenty years earlier (in 1952), another game was created. It was called OXO and it was a noughts-and-crosses (tic-tac-toe) type game which was played on the EDSAC computer. It was made by Alexander Douglas for his PhD thesis at Cambridge University. It is quite astonishing to think that the very first computer game was created nearly sixty years ago!