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Top 12 Fun Facts About Sleep
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Ideally, we spent one-third of our life sleeping. The 7-9 hours we should spend sleeping every day help our body to heal itself, activate the immune system, ...
Top 10 Interesting Facts About Amerigo Vespucci
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Amerigo Vespucci was an Italian explorer who traveled to the New World on at least two occasions and was the first to recognize the Americas as separate ...
Top 8 Interesting Facts about Adam Smith
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Adam Smith, a Scottish social philosopher, and political economist who was born in 1723 is known as the Father of Modern Economics for establishing the ...
Top 10 Interesting Facts about Leonardo da Vinci
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The prototypical Renaissance man, Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was a painter, sculptor, architect, writer, anatomist, geologist, astronomer, botanist, ...
Top 6 Interesting Facts About Horatio Gates
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On July 26, 1727, in the little village of Maldon, Essex, United Kingdom, Horatio Gates was born. In 1745, Horatio enlisted in the British Army thanks to the ...
Top 7 Interesting Facts about Alexander Fleming
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The son of a farmer, Alexander Fleming was raised in Scotland before moving to London to attend the St. Mary's Hospital Medical School. He assisted Sir Almroth ...
Top 8 Interesting Facts about Simon Bolivar
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The Republic of Bolivia and the Gran Colombia were established by the military and political figure Simon Bolivar, a native of Venezuela. Present-day Colombia, ...
Top 9 Interesting Facts about London
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London is a wonderful place. It is hardly surprising that every year, millions of eager foreign visitors, students, and permanent residents flock to London. ...
Top 7 Interesting Facts about Hideki Tojo
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Hideki Tojo, who served as Japan's prime minister during World War II, is best known for having approved the infamous Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, which ...
Top 6 Interesting Facts About Horace Mann
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Republican politician Horace Mann (1796–1859) was a free thinker and one of the key pioneers in the American educational reform movement. Mann's life goal was ...
Top 5 Interesting Facts About The Columbian Exchange
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After Christopher Columbus landed in the New World in 1492, historian Alfred Crosby invented the phrase "Columbian Exchange" to describe the enormous exchange ...
Top 5 Interesting Facts about Phillis Wheatley
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Not only was Phillis Wheatley the first published African American woman, but was also one of the first published American women poets. She was lucky to find ...
Top 10 Interesting Facts about Britney Spears
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Some of us associate Britney Spears with her memorable first single, "...Baby One More Time." The song propelled the 16-year-old pop singer to the top of the ...
Top 10 Interesting Facts about Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, a writer, lecturer, poet, and Transcendentalist thinker, was born in Boston in 1803. Emerson, known as the “Sage of Concord” wrote ...
Top 7 Interesting Facts about Gustave Eiffel
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During the 19th and 20th centuries, Gustave Eiffel was one of the most significant French figures. He not only created the Eiffel Tower, but he also made ...
Top 8 Interesting Facts about Robert Frost
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Although Robert Frost passed away on January 29, 1963, more than fifty years ago, his poetry continue to be relevant today, inspiring writers ranging from ...
Top 7 Interesting Facts about Edmund Halley
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Edmond (or Edmund) Halley was an English scientist best known for foreseeing the orbit of the comet that would subsequently bear his name. Although he is best ...
Top 10 Interesting Facts about Confucius
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The most well-known philosopher in Chinese history and a beloved person in modern China is Confucius. He was a philosopher whose ideas continue to have an ...
