There's no evidence that pirates made people walk the plank.
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Pilgrims did not eat with forks. They only used spoons, knives and their fingers.
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Modern humans first appeared about 200,000 years ago, but record keeping didn't begin until about 6,000 years ago. That means about 97% of human history is lost.
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In the 1830s, a Greek prime minister tried to spread the potato in Greece but people weren't interested so he put armed guards in front of shipments of potatoes so people would think they were important. People then started stealing these potatoes so much that the crop spread to all of Greece.
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Contrary to popular belief, the first ironclad warships were built by Korea in the 16th century.
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The Nestles haven't run Nestle since 1875.
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Traces of cocaine were found on 99% of UK bank notes in a survey in London in 2000.
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