In 1770, the British Parliament passed a law condemning lipstick, stating that “women found guilty of seducing men into matrimony by a cosmetic means could be tried for witchcraft.”
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Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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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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Rio de Janeiro was once capital of Portugal, making it the only European capital outside of Europe.
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50 years ago Cheerios were called Cheerioats.
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When Charles Darwin first discovered the Galapagos Tortoises, he tried to ride them!
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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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