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That the Roman flour mill complex at Barbegal in southern France employed 16 water wheels arranged in two rows of 8, and was powered by its own purpose-build aqueduct?
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That the elements Technetium (43) and Promethium (61) are the only radioactive elements on the periodic table that are surrounded on both sides by stable ones.
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That there are over 350 proofs of the Pythagorean theorem and that knowledge of the theorem predates Pythagoras (c. 6th century BCE) by at least one thousand years.
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The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea (Περίπλους της Ερυθράς Θαλάσσης) was a book written in the first century CE describing trade routes and geography from the Red Sea down the east coast of Africa and out to the west coast of India.