It has been calculated that every 2 minutes, we take more pictures than all of humanity in the 19th century.
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The University of Oxford (teaching since 1096) predates the Aztec empire (1428 - 1521).
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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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Astronomer Percival Lowell believed that he was the first person to observe canals on Venus, but because of a faulty adjustment of the eyepiece on his telescope, he was in fact looking at the blood vessels in his own eye.
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Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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The dildo was invented at least 22,000 years before the wheel.
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