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Did you know that Timbuktu, Mali, was a thriving center of learning and scholarship as early as the 12th century, boasting universities with thousands of students and vast libraries?
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Did you know that in 1803, a group of Igbo slaves, upon arriving in Dunbar Creek, Georgia, chose to drown themselves rather than submit to enslavement in an act known as the Igbo Landing?
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Did you know that Queen Ndaté Yalla Mbodj of Waalo, Senegal, bravely resisted French colonial expansion in the 19th century, rallying her people against overwhelming odds?
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Did you know that surgeons in ancient Africa were performing complex surgical procedures, including brain surgery, thousands of years ago?
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Did you know that the Lebombo bone, discovered in Swaziland and dating back 44,000 years, is considered one of the oldest known mathematical tools?
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Did you know that ancient Egyptians practiced dentistry as early as 3000 BC, making them some of the world's first dentists?
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Did you know that ancient Nubians in present-day Sudan performed sophisticated eye surgery, including cataract removal, centuries before similar procedures were documented elsewhere?
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Did you know that the Ishango bone, discovered in present-day Democratic Republic of Congo, provides evidence of early mathematical understanding in Africa dating back over 20,000 years?
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Did you know that the Ishango Bone, a bone tool dating back over 20,000 years from present-day Congo, suggests an early understanding of mathematical concepts, potentially predating other known mathematical tools?
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Did you know that Timbuktu, Mali, was a thriving center of Islamic scholarship and learning from the 13th to 16th centuries, housing over 700,000 manuscripts?
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Did you know that the Ishango Bone, a bone tool dating back over 20,000 years from present-day Democratic Republic of Congo, provides early evidence of mathematical understanding, including possible prime numbers and multiplication?
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Did you know that the Ge'ez script of Ethiopia is one of the oldest alphabets still in use today, dating back to at least the 5th century BCE?
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