The word 'mile' is derived from the Latin word for 1,000 - the number of paces it took the average Roman!
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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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Leonardo Da Vinci loved animals so much that he used to buy caged animals at the market just to set them free.
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Just before the US started bombing Baghdad, nearly $1 billion dollars was stolen from the Central Bank of Iraq and is now the largest bank robbery in history.
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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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