Recently, archaeologists excavating in the old medieval town of Odense in Denmark uncovered 700-year-old barrels of poop - and, to their surprise, they still smelt.
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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 last time American Green cards were actually green was 1964.
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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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There's no evidence that pirates made people walk the plank.
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Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
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The first ever patent in the UK was Aaron Rathbone & Roger Burges, Map makers in 1618!
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