In 1518, a "dancing plague" struck Strasbourg, Alsace, whereby hundreds of people danced fervently in the streets over the period of a month. Some suffered heart attacks or strokes, and many others died from sheer exhaustion. It remains unexplained.
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Ancient Greeks believed that redheads turned into vampires after they died.
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India invented the Number System. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.
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Pierre Jaquet-Droz, a watchmaker, 240 years ago invented a robot that could write, and the parts could be interchanged to say whatever you want.
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The first bomb dropped by the Allies on berlin in WW2 killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
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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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If a surgeon in Ancient Egypt lost a patient while performing an operation, his hands were cut off.
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No one knows how many people died during the sinking of the Titanic.
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