In 1542, French aristocrat Marguerite De La Rocque survived being marooned for 2 years alone on a remote island off the coast of Quebec.
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The average life span of a peasant during the medieval ages was 25 years.
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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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In 1897, Bayer, who is the maker of Aspirin, marketed the drug heroin.
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In 1537, England's King Henry VII officially declared February 14th the holiday of St. Valentine's Day.
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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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The original Cinderella was Egyptian and wore fur slippers.
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