Well, I'm not into spouting "textbook". So here are a few little know facts that I picked up in some non-euro books I found in my dad's librabry. Enjoy!
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Euclid learned math from black people and Pythagoras lived in Egypt for 21 years.
Shakespeare was in love with the appearance of black women. In one of his sonnets he wrote: "Then I will swear beauty herself is black, And all they foul that thy complexion lack."
Dwight D. Eisenhower was 1/4 black.
The earliest comb/pick for woolly hair (African folks) was carbon dated to the year 1550 B.C.E. It was found in Western Africa.
Bartholdi, the Frenchman who originally designed the Statue of Liberty, made the statue as his countries tribute to the emancipation of U.S. slaves, however, he was "asked" to alter the appearance.
Harriet Tubman fed babies sedatives to keep them quite during the road to freedom.