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    In ancient Rome it was considered a sign of leadership to be born with a crooked nose!
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    Alexander Selkirk
    Alexander Selkirk
    Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish sailor, was left stranded on a deserted island in 1704, but survived for over 4 years, partly by using feral cats to protect him from ravenous rats that attacked during the night.
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    In Ancient Greece, small penises were desirable, and big ones were for ‘old men and barbarians’
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    The life expectancy in 1900 was just 47 years.
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    There is a 600 year old 240 paged book called the Voynich Manuscript, that’s written language is still completely unknown today.
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    The flushing toilet was invented in 1596, not by Thomas Crapper as most people think, but by Sir John Harington.
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    Mahatma Gandhi used to travel with his goat so that he could have fresh milk.
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    Recently, archaeologists excavating in the old medieval town of Odense in Denmark uncovered 700-year-old barrels of poop - and, to their surprise, they still smelt.
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