There is a 600 year old 240 paged book called the Voynich Manuscript, that’s written language is still completely unknown today.
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The ancient Egyptians thought the function of the brain was to produce snot.
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The first ever patent in the UK was Aaron Rathbone & Roger Burges, Map makers in 1618!
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The Mint once considered producing doughnut-shaped coins!
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The exact cause of death and burial site of Genghis Khan is unknown, because all of the 2000 funeral guests and 800 soldiers were killed in order to preserve the secret.
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In ancient Rome it was considered a sign of leadership to be born with a crooked nose!
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Cleopatra wasn't Egyptian; she was Greek.
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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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