The ancient Egyptians bought jewelry for their pet crocodiles.
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The University of Oxford (teaching since 1096) predates the Aztec empire (1428 - 1521).
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During the 1600's, boys and girls in England wore dresses until they were about seven years old.
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During the Black Plague, it was thought that bad smells were the cause of the plague. "Plague Doctors" therefore wore masks with long beak-like noses stuffed with flowers or smoke to hide the smells.
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The Grateful Dead were once called 'The Warlocks'.
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During the Cold War, the US had planned to detonate a nuclear weapon on the moon.
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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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