When Charles Darwin first discovered the Galapagos Tortoises, he tried to ride them!
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During the Black Plague, it was thought that bad smells were the cause of the plague. "Plague Doctors" therefore wore masks with long beak-like noses stuffed with flowers or smoke to hide the smells.
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In medieval Italy, if a man was caught kissing a woman in public, he had to marry her whether he liked it or not.
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The range of a medieval long-bow is 220 yards.
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In 1987 American Airlines saved $40,000 by eliminating one olive from its First Class salads.
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Early American humans hunted car-size armadillos and used their shells for houses.
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Early Romans used to use porcupine quills as toothpicks.
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The Canadian province of New Brunswick (which was part of the UK at the time) had a bloodless war with the US state of Maine in 1839
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