Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
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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 handbook issued to US soldiers in Britain during WW2 included the line "The British don't know how to make a good cup of coffee. You don't know how to make a good cup of tea. It's an even swap."
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The ancient Egyptians thought the function of the brain was to produce snot.
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In 2011, archaeologists discovered the skeletal remains of a Roman couple who have been holding hands for 1,500 years.
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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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No one knows how many people died during the sinking of the Titanic.
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Jericho is the oldest walled city in the world at 9,000 yrs old!
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