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[image] 🇮🇳 The Mahabharata is the longest poem ever written. With over 200,000 verses and roughly 1.8 million words, it is 10x longer than the Iliad and Odyssey combined.

[image] The footprints left on the Moon could stay there for millions of years because there is no wind or rain to erase them.

[image] Soviet linguist Yuri Knorozov deciphered Mayan writing and published translation of Mayan manuscripts during Cold War era.

[image] In 1965, gas was about $0,31 and minimum wage was $1.25. And this is a copy of the menu of McDonalds.

[text] Countries (or territories) that have completely prohibited corporal punishment of children (smacking, slapping, spanking): Sweden 🇸🇪 (1979) Finland 🇫🇮 (1983) Austria 🇦🇹 (1989) Cyprus 🇨🇾 (1994) Denmark 🇩🇰 (1997) Poland 🇵🇱 (1997) Latvia 🇱🇻 (1998) Germany 🇩🇪 (1998) Croatia 🇭🇷

[text] Atoms are 99.99999% empty space. If you removed all that space from the atoms of every human on Earth, the entire world population would fit inside an apple.

[image] After Henry Kissinger accepted the Nobel Peace Prize of 1973, he later tried to return it, but the committee declined his offer

[image] The iconic hairstyle of Star Wars Princess Leia was inspired by the Mexican revolutionary Clara de la Rocha.

[image] The world's tallest Church - Sagrada Família in Barcelona, Spain has taken 144 years (begins from 19 March, 1882) to build it's full height of 172.5 metres designed by architect Antoni Gaudí (died on 10 June,1926)

[image] Dancing Mania was a historical phenomenon, where large groups of people, up to thousands at a time, danced uncontrollably for days, sometimes to death.

[image] Two months before the Wright brothers' first flight, the NYT reported that powered flight was "one million to ten million years away"