In 1846, a 14 year old French peasant girl named Angelique Cottin was found to possess extraordinary electrical power. With a gentle touch she could knock over heavy pieces of furniture and even shock people near her.
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In real life, Pocahontas was 11 years old when she met John Smith - he was 28.
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In 1537, England's King Henry VII officially declared February 14th the holiday of St. Valentine's Day.
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The University of Oxford (teaching since 1096) predates the Aztec empire (1428 - 1521).
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The dildo was invented at least 22,000 years before the wheel.
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In the 1830s, a Greek prime minister tried to spread the potato in Greece but people weren't interested so he put armed guards in front of shipments of potatoes so people would think they were important. People then started stealing these potatoes so much that the crop spread to all of Greece.
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