In medieval Italy, if a man was caught kissing a woman in public, he had to marry her whether he liked it or not.
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Tablecloths were originally meant to serve as towels with which guests could wipe their hands and faces after dinner.
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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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In 1999, Pepsi, Inc. paid $0.00 in income tax!
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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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Harry S. Truman was the last U.S. President with no college degree.
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No one knows how many people died during the sinking of the Titanic.
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