In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
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Ancient Greeks believed that redheads turned into vampires after they died.
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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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Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
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"Yo momma" jokes/insults were invented by Shakespeare.
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Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards.
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The handbook issued to US soldiers in Britain during WW2 included the line "The British don't know how to make a good cup of coffee. You don't know how to make a good cup of tea. It's an even swap."
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