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The 22 greatest tools in the history of the world

Hand tools have been revolutionizing the way we live for 2.6 million years

When a weather balloon went rogue almost 25 years ago, fighter jets fired 1,000 rounds at it & couldn’t bring it down

Two Royal Canadian Air Force CF-18 fighter aircraft spotted the balloon over Newfoundland and fired

Who invented the toilet?

More complex toilets first appeared nearly a millennium later, in the ancient Minoan civilization on the island of Crete

Maybe rats didn’t spread the Black Death after all, new evidence suggests

Recent research suggests rats may not have played the critical role in keeping plague going in Europe

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