Early American humans hunted car-size armadillos and used their shells for houses.
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"Yo momma" jokes/insults were invented by Shakespeare.
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If a surgeon in Ancient Egypt lost a patient while performing an operation, his hands were cut off.
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During World War 1, starving wolves amassed in such great numbers that Germans and Russians had a temporary cease fire to fight off the wolf attacks.
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France’s King Louis XIV was offered biological weapons by an Italian chemist. He not only refused, but also paid the chemist an annual salary to never reveal the technology to anyone else.
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The universally popular Hershey bar was used overseas during World War II as currency.
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The ancient Egyptians thought the function of the brain was to produce snot.
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Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
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