The ancient Egyptians thought the function of the brain was to produce snot.
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In 1897, Bayer, who is the maker of Aspirin, marketed the drug heroin.
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Pilgrims did not eat with forks. They only used spoons, knives and their fingers.
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During the Cold War, the US had planned to detonate a nuclear weapon on the moon.
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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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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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Queen Elizabeth II served as a mechanic and driver in World War 2.
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