Scientists are learning from the 1700-year-old Lycurgus Cup, which changes colour thanks to nano particles.
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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 1999, a fisherman found a love letter in a bottle from a soldier in WWI. He returned said letter to the now deceased widows 86 year old daughter.
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In 1956, the IBM 350 hard disk drive had 3.75 MB of storage, weighed over 2000 lbs, had to be moved around with forklifts, and was delivered via large cargo airplanes.
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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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The dildo was invented at least 22,000 years before the wheel.
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