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    To take an oath, ancient Romans put a hand on their testicles
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    Vegetarian Gladiators
    Vegetarian Gladiators
    Ancient gladiators were mostly vegetarians whose diet consisted mainly of grains, beans, and dried fruit, washed down with a vinegar and plant ash tonic.
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    The range of a medieval long-bow is 220 yards.
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    In 1897, Bayer, who is the maker of Aspirin, marketed the drug heroin.
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    In 1518, a "dancing plague" struck Strasbourg, Alsace, whereby hundreds of people danced fervently in the streets over the period of a month. Some suffered heart attacks or strokes, and many others died from sheer exhaustion. It remains unexplained.
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    In Ancient Greece, small penises were desirable, and big ones were for ‘old men and barbarians’
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    During World War II, Uncle Ben's was the exclusive supplier of rice to the U.S. Armed Forces.
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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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