In Ancient Greece, small penises were desirable, and big ones were for ‘old men and barbarians’
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A man named Heraclitus had an illness that made his body swell up with water. To try to sweat it off, he buried himself in a steaming pile of animal poo, but then overheated and died of dehydration.
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Ancient Greeks believed that redheads turned into vampires after they died.
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Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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Napoleon Bonaparte thought torture should be abolished because the information obtained from it is worthless.
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In 1918, a homing pigeon saved over 190 American soldiers by delivering a message to nearby support despite having been shot through the breast, blinded in one eye, covered in blood, and with a leg hanging on by just a tendon.
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