Tickling was a form of torture used in ancient China on nobility because it left no mark and recovery was quick.
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Picasso’s full name: Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso.
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In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
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English sailors were referred to as "limeys" because sailors added lime juice to their diet to combat scurvy.
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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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If a surgeon in Ancient Egypt lost a patient while performing an operation, his hands were cut off.
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Grenades were invented in China over 1,000 years ago.
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Pilgrims did not eat with forks. They only used spoons, knives and their fingers.
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