Pilgrims did not eat with forks. They only used spoons, knives and their fingers.
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The University of Oxford (teaching since 1096) predates the Aztec empire (1428 - 1521).
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Leonardo Da Vinci loved animals so much that he used to buy caged animals at the market just to set them free.
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In 2011, archaeologists discovered the skeletal remains of a Roman couple who have been holding hands for 1,500 years.
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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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"Yo momma" jokes/insults were invented by Shakespeare.
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The range of a medieval long-bow is 220 yards.
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