Pineapples were such a status symbol in 18th century England that you could rent one for the evening to take to a party.
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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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Allegedly, Chrysippus, the Greek philosopher, died of laughter after getting his donkey drunk and watching it try to eat figs.
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Canada's new flag, with its maple leaf design, was unfurled in 1965 in Ottawa!
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The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal.
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Napoleon had conquered Italy by the time he was twenty-six.
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No one knows who designed the first American Flag.
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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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