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The Maya civilization developed highly sophisticated science and make remarkable contribution and improvement to the astronomy discovery of humans. Some of their scientific discovery seems to be a lot futuristic than their age in between 250AD to 900AD including the most accurate calendar, the position-value number system with zero, etc. However, the Mayans, despite all these great scientific discoveries and improvements, failed to invent wheel.
Turkeys Were Once Worshipped Like Gods(The animal Turkey not the country.) In 200 BC, the animal was once worshipped like god because they were considered the god's vessels and were treated like that. Thus, turkeys are domesticated for religious purposes. Turkeys are also signs of power and prestige.
John Adams and his son Quincy Adams are father and sons. The Adams family is also the only family where both father and son served as the president of the US.
John Adams and Tomas Jefferson dies in the same day. The difference of their dying time is only few hours and the last work of John Adams is "Thomas Jefferson still survives".
In Christmas 1914, the western front of World war 1 stopped fighting and celebrated the holiday together. This moment is one of the few heart-warming moment in one of the most cruel and bloody war in human history.
The first satellite to be fired into the universe is a Soviet one named Sputnik 1.
Ottoman sultan Bayezid I was captured by the force of Timur in the battle of Ankara which indirectly resulted in the civil war in Ottoman empire.
China is now the country with the longest history because most other ancient civilizations disappeared in the long stream of history.
Most countries in the world exists because the Europeans sitting in paris drew a line based on their colonial rights and interest.
There was once a war fought over the soccer race between two central American states Honduras and Salvador. However, soccer competition was just a fuse that detonated a long fusing tension between the two countries over land and immigration.