France’s King Louis XIV was offered biological weapons by an Italian chemist. He not only refused, but also paid the chemist an annual salary to never reveal the technology to anyone else.
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The universally popular Hershey bar was used overseas during World War II as currency.
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The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.
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There's a bar in Ireland (presently named Sean’s Bar) that was opened in 900AD.
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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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In 1958, a nuclear bomb was lost somewhere along the swampy coast of Georgia. Its whereabouts remain a mystery to this day.
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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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Ancient Greeks believed that redheads turned into vampires after they died.
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