The Grateful Dead were once called 'The Warlocks'.
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Tickling was a form of torture used in ancient China on nobility because it left no mark and recovery was quick.
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The first telephone book was one page long and had only 50 names in it.
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The site where the Parthenon was built had to be cleared of hundreds of dinosaur bones (then called giants' bones) before construction could begin.
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A monk had once written over a book that contained information about calculus that was written by Archimedes in ancient Greece that could have made us 100 or even 1000 years more mathematically and technologically advanced.
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Pineapples were such a status symbol in 18th century England that you could rent one for the evening to take to a party.
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The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.
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