If a surgeon in Ancient Egypt lost a patient while performing an operation, his hands were cut off.
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The original Cinderella was Egyptian and wore fur slippers.
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Ancient Romans at one time used human urine as an ingredient in their toothpaste.
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Approximately 25,000 workers died during the building of the Panama Canal, and approximately 20,000 of them contracted malaria and yellow fever.
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In Ancient Greece, if a woman watched even one Olympic event, she was executed.
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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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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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Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards.
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