Two dogs were among the Titanic survivors.
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In the 1830s, a Greek prime minister tried to spread the potato in Greece but people weren't interested so he put armed guards in front of shipments of potatoes so people would think they were important. People then started stealing these potatoes so much that the crop spread to all of Greece.
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In 1976 an LA secretary named Jannene Swift officially married a 50 pound rock in a ceremony witnessed by more than 20 people.
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Romans used a plant called Silphium as contraception. They had so much sex that they drove it into extinction.
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Ancient Romans at one time used human urine as an ingredient in their toothpaste.
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During the Gold Rush in 1849, some people paid as much as $100 for a glass of water!
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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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