During the Gold Rush in 1849, some people paid as much as $100 for a glass of water!
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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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Because metal was scarce; the Oscars given out during World War II were made of plaster.
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Allegedly, Chrysippus, the Greek philosopher, died of laughter after getting his donkey drunk and watching it try to eat figs.
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The first bomb dropped on Germany in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin zoo!
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