In 1897, Bayer, who is the maker of Aspirin, marketed the drug heroin.
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In Ancient Greece, if a woman watched even one Olympic event, she was executed.
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The U.S. motto, 'In God We Trust', was not adopted as the national slogan until 1956.
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In 1799, a boy found a 17lb. rock in a creek in North Carolina and used it as a doorstop. It was actually gold.
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A monk had once written over a book that contained information about calculus that was written by Archimedes in ancient Greece that could have made us 100 or even 1000 years more mathematically and technologically advanced.
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In Ancient Egypt, some people paid their taxes in honey.
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The oldest stone tools found are dated from 2.7 - 2.9 million years ago. The species that made these tools is unknown.
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In Ancient Greece, small penises were desirable, and big ones were for ‘old men and barbarians’
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