There are pictures of Knights fighting Snails in old Medieval manuscripts - and nobody knows why.
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When the Egyptians destroyed Libya in the 13th century B.C. they took 13,230 penises of the conquered enemies as trophies.
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Canada's new flag, with its maple leaf design, was unfurled in 1965 in Ottawa!
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The original Cinderella was Egyptian and wore fur slippers.
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After Germany surrendered in WW2, people in Moscow partied until the entire city actually ran out of vodka.
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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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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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The oldest stone tools found are dated from 2.7 - 2.9 million years ago. The species that made these tools is unknown.
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