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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In 1949, an official boxing match between a bear and a man was held. The bear won.
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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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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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Ancient Greeks believed that redheads turned into vampires after they died.
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In real life, Pocahontas was 11 years old when she met John Smith - he was 28.
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Iceland has been so culturally isolated through history since the Vikings, that compared to other Scandinavian counties, people who speak Icelandic can still read the old Norsk sagas.
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