The flushing toilet was invented in 1596, not by Thomas Crapper as most people think, but by Sir John Harington.
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The Canadian province of New Brunswick (which was part of the UK at the time) had a bloodless war with the US state of Maine in 1839
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Recently, archaeologists excavating in the old medieval town of Odense in Denmark uncovered 700-year-old barrels of poop - and, to their surprise, they still smelt.
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The first chocolate eggs were made in Germany in the 19th century and remain one of the most popular Easter candies today.
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Tickling was a form of torture used in ancient China on nobility because it left no mark and recovery was quick.
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Napoleon had conquered Italy by the time he was twenty-six.
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In 1963, the US Military created an artificial ring around Earth, similar to that of the planet Saturn. The ring was made of copper needles and was used for worldwide communications in the case that the Soviets disabled all other methods of communication.
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