The life expectancy in 1900 was just 47 years.
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After Germany surrendered in WW2, people in Moscow partied until the entire city actually ran out of vodka.
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During World War 1, starving wolves amassed in such great numbers that Germans and Russians had a temporary cease fire to fight off the wolf attacks.
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In 2011, archaeologists discovered the skeletal remains of a Roman couple who have been holding hands for 1,500 years.
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Early American humans hunted car-size armadillos and used their shells for houses.
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During the Cold War, the US had planned to detonate a nuclear weapon on the moon.
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Early Romans used to use porcupine quills as toothpicks.
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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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