Long, Long Ago, Benin had the first street lighting in the world. Then called Edo, as far back as the 9th century, the blueprint of the city was designed using fractal mathematics when that science hadn’t even been ‘discovered’ yet. Public health, animal rights & environmental science were high on the Benin agenda.
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