In 1897, Bayer, who is the maker of Aspirin, marketed the drug heroin.
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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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Romans used a plant called Silphium as contraception. They had so much sex that they drove it into extinction.
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Originally, Du Pont, Inc. was a tiny gun powder mill in New Jersey.
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After Germany surrendered in WW2, people in Moscow partied until the entire city actually ran out of vodka.
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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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The life expectancy in 1900 was just 47 years.
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The University of Oxford (teaching since 1096) predates the Aztec empire (1428 - 1521).
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