Pineapples were such a status symbol in 18th century England that you could rent one for the evening to take to a party.
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Leonardo Da Vinci loved animals so much that he used to buy caged animals at the market just to set them free.
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Alligator snapping turtles can live for over 150 years. Scientists know this because some of the turtles had musket balls in their stomachs.
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When Charles Darwin first discovered the Galapagos Tortoises, he tried to ride them!
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Napoleon Bonaparte thought torture should be abolished because the information obtained from it is worthless.
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In 1770, the British Parliament passed a law condemning lipstick, stating that “women found guilty of seducing men into matrimony by a cosmetic means could be tried for witchcraft.”
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Just before the US started bombing Baghdad, nearly $1 billion dollars was stolen from the Central Bank of Iraq and is now the largest bank robbery in history.
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