The Most Important Events That Changed History Forever

In the following weeks, one witness described how difficult it was to "get away from faces of innocent victims who were killed. Their pictures are everywhere, on phone booths, street lights, walls of subway stations." The World Trade Center is currently in the process of being rebuilt.

Invention of the Printing Press (1440)

Sometime around 1440, German goldsmith Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press. The printing press was a device that transferred ink to a print medium. The global spread of Gutenberg's press allowed for the mass circulation of information and ideas, known as the Printing Revolution.

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The More You Know

  • War pigs were used in ancient warfare to counter against war elephants, which feared the pigs (and their squeals) and would bolt. War pigs were sometimes lit on fire to enhance this effect.
  • The average golf ball has 336 dimples.
  • 9% of Americans have phobias.
  • If you ate nothing but rabbit meat, you would die from protein poisoning.
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