Hundreds of years ago, the Aztecs of Mexico and the people of Nicaragua believed gods lived in volcanoes. They would sacrifice beautiful young girls to these powerful gods.
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The University of Oxford (teaching since 1096) predates the Aztec empire (1428 - 1521).
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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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During the 1600's, boys and girls in England wore dresses until they were about seven years old.
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Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox.
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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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The site where the Parthenon was built had to be cleared of hundreds of dinosaur bones (then called giants' bones) before construction could begin.
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The Mint once considered producing doughnut-shaped coins!
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