"Yo momma" jokes/insults were invented by Shakespeare.
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During the Black Plague, it was thought that bad smells were the cause of the plague. "Plague Doctors" therefore wore masks with long beak-like noses stuffed with flowers or smoke to hide the smells.
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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 1537, England's King Henry VII officially declared February 14th the holiday of St. Valentine's Day.
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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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