Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
80
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.
21
In the 1930's, American track star Jesse Owens used to race against horses and dogs to earn a living.
50
Napoleon Bonaparte thought torture should be abolished because the information obtained from it is worthless.
25
In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
130
There are 92 known cases of nuclear bombs lost at sea.
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