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October 04, 2014

Your entire perception of history is totally whacked out, and we're going to prove it. With the help of illustrious image manipulator AuntieMeme, we're about to drop a history bomb of knowledge on all your asses. Real talk.

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Gobekli Tepe, in Turkey, is 6,000 years older than Stonehenge. Gobekli Tepe, dated at around 9,000 BC, is thought to be the oldest human construction.

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