In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
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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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India invented the Number System. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.
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Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards.
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Ancient Romans at one time used human urine as an ingredient in their toothpaste.
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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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