The Egyptians believed that the heart, not the brain, was the source of human wisdom, memory, emotions, the soul and the personality itself. In fact, the brain was discarded during the mummification process
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In 1958, a nuclear bomb was lost during an aircraft collision during exercise near Savannah, GA. It's whereabouts remain unknown to this day
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80% of all Soviet males born in the year 1923 died in World War II
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The Aztecs sacrificed 250,000 people a year, about 1% of their population
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Until 1936, a jump ball in basketball occurred in at center court after every basket made
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The term soccer originated in England, first appearing in the 1880s as an Oxford "-er" abbreviation of the word "association"
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A subatomic particle (like an electron or photon) can exist in two places at the same time
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