The first chocolate eggs were made in Germany in the 19th century and remain one of the most popular Easter candies today.
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Iceland has been so culturally isolated through history since the Vikings, that compared to other Scandinavian counties, people who speak Icelandic can still read the old Norsk sagas.
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Pierre Jaquet-Droz, a watchmaker, 240 years ago invented a robot that could write, and the parts could be interchanged to say whatever you want.
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The ‘@’ sign is centuries old, and was used in Europe to denote a unit of weight (the “arroba”) equivalent to 25 lbs.
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In Ancient Greece, small penises were desirable, and big ones were for ‘old men and barbarians’
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Sifrhippus was a species of horse about the size of an average duck and roamed North America 56 million years ago.
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