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Use this tag for questions that pertain to historical events, or claim whose evidence is historical in nature.

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Did 120,000 Egyptians die building the Suez Canal?

No Using the figure from the Wikipedia article on the Suez Canal, around 1.5 million people worked on the construction of the canal in total. At any one time, over 30,000 people would be working on t …
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