In Ancient Greece, small penises were desirable, and big ones were for ‘old men and barbarians’
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In 1542, French aristocrat Marguerite De La Rocque survived being marooned for 2 years alone on a remote island off the coast of Quebec.
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Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
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Clocks made before 1660 had only one hand - an hour hand.
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In 1963, the US Military created an artificial ring around Earth, similar to that of the planet Saturn. The ring was made of copper needles and was used for worldwide communications in the case that the Soviets disabled all other methods of communication.
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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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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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In 1897, Bayer, who is the maker of Aspirin, marketed the drug heroin.
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