In 1700s, the deer skin was a common medium of exchange between the trading settlers and the native Red Indians in America. This is how a buck became a slang for a dollar.
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In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
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If Earth's history was condensed into twenty-four hours, life would've appeared at around 4am, land plants at 10:24pm, dinosaur extinction at 11:41pm, and human history would’ve began at 11:58:43pm.
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In ancient Rome it was considered a sign of leadership to be born with a crooked nose!
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Cleopatra wasn't Egyptian; she was Greek.
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Harry S. Truman was the last U.S. President with no college degree.
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Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards.
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