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1 million years ago?
Nobody knows when our ancestors learned to control fire. The oldest direct evidence comes from Wonderwerk Cave in South Africa, which contains ashes and burned bones from 1 million years ago. But there is evidence hominins were processing food even earlier, and that might have included cooking with fire.
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Anthropologies believe that man has known how to use fire for 500,000 years, but only learned how to make it himself 12,000 years ago.
Prior to 1962, sodomy was illegal in every US State.
The flag of Paraguay is the only current national flag whose obverse and reverse sides are neither identical nor mirrored.
Legendary Cuban Communist revolutionary Che Guevara was born in Argentina.
Until 1857, in the UK, a husband wishing to end an unhappy marriage could sell his wife. The cost was about £3,000 – roughly £223,000 in today’s money.
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