In Ancient Egypt, some people paid their taxes in honey.
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In 1799, a boy found a 17lb. rock in a creek in North Carolina and used it as a doorstop. It was actually gold.
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Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox.
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Originally, Du Pont, Inc. was a tiny gun powder mill in New Jersey.
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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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There is a 600 year old 240 paged book called the Voynich Manuscript, that’s written language is still completely unknown today.
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Tickling was a form of torture used in ancient China on nobility because it left no mark and recovery was quick.
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The ancient Egyptians thought the function of the brain was to produce snot.
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