In 1700s, the deer skin was a common medium of exchange between the trading settlers and the native Red Indians in America. This is how a buck became a slang for a dollar.
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In medieval Italy, if a man was caught kissing a woman in public, he had to marry her whether he liked it or not.
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Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards.
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Contrary to popular belief, the first ironclad warships were built by Korea in the 16th century.
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In Ancient Greece, if a woman watched even one Olympic event, she was executed.
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Leonardo Da Vinci made a robotic lion in 1515 that would walk, sway, open its mouth and move its tail - it even had a compartment that opened to present flowers.
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In 1897, Bayer, who is the maker of Aspirin, marketed the drug heroin.
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