Pineapples were such a status symbol in 18th century England that you could rent one for the evening to take to a party.
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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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Napoleon Bonaparte thought torture should be abolished because the information obtained from it is worthless.
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Romans used a plant called Silphium as contraception. They had so much sex that they drove it into extinction.
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London's Pall Mall became the first street lit by gaslight in 1807!
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Leonardo Da Vinci made a robotic lion in 1515 that would walk, sway, open its mouth and move its tail - it even had a compartment that opened to present flowers.
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The Grateful Dead were once called 'The Warlocks'.
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