In Ancient Greece, small penises were desirable, and big ones were for ‘old men and barbarians’
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In ancient Athens, the worlds first democracy, they had a process called ostracism, where once a year the people could vote on the politician they thought was most destructive to the democratic process. The “winner” was banished from Athens for 10 years.
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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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The dildo was invented at least 22,000 years before the wheel.
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Chunosuke Matsuyama, a Japanese Seaman, sent a message in a bottle in 1784 that his ship had wrecked. It washed up in 1935 in the village where he was born.
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The University of Oxford (teaching since 1096) predates the Aztec empire (1428 - 1521).
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There are pictures of Knights fighting Snails in old Medieval manuscripts - and nobody knows why.
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