18 Amazing People From History (A Lot Us Haven't Heard Of)
These folks had a bigger impact than we could have possibly imagined.
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Ever wonder why we have flushing toilets? Or who decided to dry windshields by going "swish, swish"? Well so did we. So we dug up some people who may have only gotten a sentence or two in our history books, but had a bigger impact than we could have possibly imagined.
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