Ice cream cones were popularized in America during the 1904 World’s Fair in Saint Louis when an ice cream vendor ran out of cups and asked a nearby waffle vendor to roll up his waffles to hold the ice cream.
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Romans used a plant called Silphium as contraception. They had so much sex that they drove it into extinction.
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Chunosuke Matsuyama, a Japanese Seaman, sent a message in a bottle in 1784 that his ship had wrecked. It washed up in 1935 in the village where he was born.
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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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In ancient Athens, the worlds first democracy, they had a process called ostracism, where once a year the people could vote on the politician they thought was most destructive to the democratic process. The “winner” was banished from Athens for 10 years.
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Ancient Greeks believed that redheads turned into vampires after they died.
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It's still possible to see the division between East and West Germany due to different light bulbs.
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