There are pictures of Knights fighting Snails in old Medieval manuscripts - and nobody knows why.
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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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Ancient Greeks believed that redheads turned into vampires after they died.
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France’s King Louis XIV was offered biological weapons by an Italian chemist. He not only refused, but also paid the chemist an annual salary to never reveal the technology to anyone else.
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In 1799, a boy found a 17lb. rock in a creek in North Carolina and used it as a doorstop. It was actually gold.
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The dildo was invented at least 22,000 years before the wheel.
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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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Genghis Khan exempted the poor and clergy from taxes, encouraged literacy, and established free religion, leading many peoples to join his empire before they were even conquered.
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