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    Tickling was a form of torture used in ancient China on nobility because it left no mark and recovery was quick.
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    The first semi-permanent settlements appeared in Florida around 5000 B.C.
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    The original Cinderella was Egyptian and wore fur slippers.
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    A monk had once written over a book that contained information about calculus that was written by Archimedes in ancient Greece that could have made us 100 or even 1000 years more mathematically and technologically advanced.
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    Derinkuyu Underground City
    Derinkuyu Underground City
    In 1963, a man found a mysterious room behind a wall in his home that lead to a huge underground city that once housed up to 20,000 people, complete with schools, livestock pens, and food stores, dating back over a millennium.
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    Mahatma Gandhi used to travel with his goat so that he could have fresh milk.
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    Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards.
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    Roman Farting Edict
    Roman Farting Edict
    After hearing of a man who almost died from holding in farts whilst dining, Emperor Claudius is said to have proclaimed an edict that allowed Romans to fart at the dinner table.
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