The site where the Parthenon was built had to be cleared of hundreds of dinosaur bones (then called giants' bones) before construction could begin.
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In Ancient Greece, small penises were desirable, and big ones were for ‘old men and barbarians’
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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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Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
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The time interval from first sighting of the iceberg that sank the Titanic to impact was a little over 30 seconds.
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Hundreds of years ago, the Aztecs of Mexico and the people of Nicaragua believed gods lived in volcanoes. They would sacrifice beautiful young girls to these powerful gods.
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