In 1799, a boy found a 17lb. rock in a creek in North Carolina and used it as a doorstop. It was actually gold.
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The oldest glowing lightbulb was first switched on in 1901 and lives in fire stations in Livermore, CA. It is known as the Centennial Light.
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In 1956, the IBM 350 hard disk drive had 3.75 MB of storage, weighed over 2000 lbs, had to be moved around with forklifts, and was delivered via large cargo airplanes.
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In Ancient Greece, small penises were desirable, and big ones were for ‘old men and barbarians’
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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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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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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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