The range of a medieval long-bow is 220 yards.
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Clocks made before 1660 had only one hand - an hour hand.
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Early Romans used to use porcupine quills as toothpicks.
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Che Guevara suffered from asthma!
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Jericho is the oldest walled city in the world at 9,000 yrs old!
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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 first telephone book was one page long and had only 50 names in it.
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