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Ancient Greeks invented the first alarm clock that used water.
Plato created a water clock that would whistle when water reached a certain level. The device, called a clepsydra, was later modified to include a mechanism that would drop pebbles onto a gong at a specified time. This invention was the predecessor to modern alarm clocks.
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The first recorded game of cricket was played in 1550 as a court case.
The earliest documented evidence of cricket comes from a court case in Surrey, England, where a man testified...
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Napoleon was once attacked by thousands of rabbits.
In 1807, Napoleon arranged a rabbit hunt to entertain his guests. His chief of staff collected thousands of...
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The Great Pyramid of Giza had a modern-day equivalent price tag of $1.2 billion.
Ancient records show that building the Great Pyramid required approximately 4 million stone blocks and took 20 years....