Romans used a plant called Silphium as contraception. They had so much sex that they drove it into extinction.
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The ancient Egyptians thought the function of the brain was to produce snot.
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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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Leonardo Da Vinci made a robotic lion in 1515 that would walk, sway, open its mouth and move its tail - it even had a compartment that opened to present flowers.
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When the Egyptians destroyed Libya in the 13th century B.C. they took 13,230 penises of the conquered enemies as trophies.
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It has been calculated that every 2 minutes, we take more pictures than all of humanity in the 19th century.
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Neil Armstrong, the first man to step foot on the moon, carried with him a piece of cloth and wood from the original 1903 Wright Flyer.
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During the Black Plague, it was thought that bad smells were the cause of the plague. "Plague Doctors" therefore wore masks with long beak-like noses stuffed with flowers or smoke to hide the smells.
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