Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
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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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In 2011, a couple bought a box of textbooks for $10. Inside, they found a 25-cent bill signed by the president of the Republic of Texas, Sam Houston, and subsequently sold it for $63,250.
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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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A singing birthday card has more computing power than the allied forces in 1945.
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In Ancient Egypt, some people paid their taxes in honey.
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When Charles Darwin first discovered the Galapagos Tortoises, he tried to ride them!
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