Romans used a plant called Silphium as contraception. They had so much sex that they drove it into extinction.
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Che Guevara suffered from asthma!
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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 first Ford cars had Dodge engines.
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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 Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
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In the 1830s, a Greek prime minister tried to spread the potato in Greece but people weren't interested so he put armed guards in front of shipments of potatoes so people would think they were important. People then started stealing these potatoes so much that the crop spread to all of Greece.
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A singing birthday card has more computing power than the allied forces in 1945.
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