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Someone's entire grueling job was fiercely staring at falling sand for months on end so the navigator wouldn't completely lose track of where they were.
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Before this arbitrary system, catching a ride meant desperately guessing your town's localized high noon compared to the destination's wildly different noon.
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When the underground transit system finally opened, over a hundred thousand people shoved their way in just for the novelty. It immediately set the gold…
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He paid an absolute fortune just to sit uncomfortably on a wicker chair in a tiny seaplane for twenty minutes, mostly out of sheer spite for taking a boat.
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Instead of utilizing stone or asphalt, they just laid down endless muddy logs so heavy wagons wouldn't sink completely into the earth and get stuck.
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Arming thousands of enslaved warriors and teaching them elite cavalry tactics is a bold move that always goes wrong. The Mamluks were purchased as boys to…
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