There's a bar in Ireland (presently named Sean’s Bar) that was opened in 900AD.
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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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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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In 1949, an official boxing match between a bear and a man was held. The bear won.
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The word 'mile' is derived from the Latin word for 1,000 - the number of paces it took the average Roman!
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