Contrary to popular belief, the first ironclad warships were built by Korea in the 16th century.
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When Charles Darwin first discovered the Galapagos Tortoises, he tried to ride them!
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When the Egyptians destroyed Libya in the 13th century B.C. they took 13,230 penises of the conquered enemies as trophies.
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In the 1830s, a Greek prime minister tried to spread the potato in Greece but people weren't interested so he put armed guards in front of shipments of potatoes so people would think they were important. People then started stealing these potatoes so much that the crop spread to all of Greece.
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Pilgrims did not eat with forks. They only used spoons, knives and their fingers.
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There are pictures of Knights fighting Snails in old Medieval manuscripts - and nobody knows why.
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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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