Scientists are excavating the ruins of a major civilization which pre-dates both the pyramids and Stonehenge by over 7,000 years. In 15 years, they have uncovered only about 5% of the site.
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Napoleon Bonaparte thought torture should be abolished because the information obtained from it is worthless.
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The oldest patented company logo is the red triangle of Bass beers!
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In ancient Greece, tossing an apple to a girl was a traditional proposal of marriage. Catching it meant that she accepted.
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Cleopatra wasn't Egyptian; she was Greek.
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When Charles Darwin first discovered the Galapagos Tortoises, he tried to ride them!
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In the 1830s, a Greek prime minister tried to spread the potato in Greece but people weren't interested so he put armed guards in front of shipments of potatoes so people would think they were important. People then started stealing these potatoes so much that the crop spread to all of Greece.
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