It's still possible to see the division between East and West Germany due to different light bulbs.
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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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20 years ago, there were only 130 websites, Google wasn't around, and you had to pay for an email account through an ISP.
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In 1700s, the deer skin was a common medium of exchange between the trading settlers and the native Red Indians in America. This is how a buck became a slang for a dollar.
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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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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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It has been calculated that every 2 minutes, we take more pictures than all of humanity in the 19th century.
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