Recently, archaeologists excavating in the old medieval town of Odense in Denmark uncovered 700-year-old barrels of poop - and, to their surprise, they still smelt.
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London's Pall Mall became the first street lit by gaslight in 1807!
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The University of Oxford (teaching since 1096) predates the Aztec empire (1428 - 1521).
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In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
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During the 1600's, boys and girls in England wore dresses until they were about seven years old.
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Approximately 25,000 workers died during the building of the Panama Canal, and approximately 20,000 of them contracted malaria and yellow fever.
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Ancient Greeks believed that redheads turned into vampires after they died.
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