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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There are pictures of Knights fighting Snails in old Medieval manuscripts - and nobody knows why.
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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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In Ancient Greece, if a woman watched even one Olympic event, she was executed.
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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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In the 1930's, American track star Jesse Owens used to race against horses and dogs to earn a living.
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The ancient Egyptians thought the function of the brain was to produce snot.
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