It has been calculated that every 2 minutes, we take more pictures than all of humanity in the 19th century.
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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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A monk had once written over a book that contained information about calculus that was written by Archimedes in ancient Greece that could have made us 100 or even 1000 years more mathematically and technologically advanced.
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Recently, archaeologists excavating in the old medieval town of Odense in Denmark uncovered 700-year-old barrels of poop - and, to their surprise, they still smelt.
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Sifrhippus was a species of horse about the size of an average duck and roamed North America 56 million years ago.
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Napoleon Bonaparte thought torture should be abolished because the information obtained from it is worthless.
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The Aztecs were the first to serve chocolate as a drink. They also mixed it with hot chili pepper to make it really 'hot'.
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