At age 18, the Queen of England was a mechanic for the British Military.
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The flushing toilet was invented in 1596, not by Thomas Crapper as most people think, but by Sir John Harington.
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In 1700s, the deer skin was a common medium of exchange between the trading settlers and the native Red Indians in America. This is how a buck became a slang for a dollar.
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In Ancient Greece, small penises were desirable, and big ones were for ‘old men and barbarians’
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The life expectancy in 1900 was just 47 years.
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In Ancient Egypt, some people paid their taxes in honey.
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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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