There are pictures of Knights fighting Snails in old Medieval manuscripts - and nobody knows why.
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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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Modern humans first appeared about 200,000 years ago, but record keeping didn't begin until about 6,000 years ago. That means about 97% of human history is lost.
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Instead of McDonald's tearing down a ~200-year-old Georgian mansion, citizens of a small NY town forced them to renovate it instead, resulting in a uniquely historic franchise location.
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A man named Heraclitus had an illness that made his body swell up with water. To try to sweat it off, he buried himself in a steaming pile of animal poo, but then overheated and died of dehydration.
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There's a bar in Ireland (presently named Sean’s Bar) that was opened in 900AD.
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