The first chocolate eggs were made in Germany in the 19th century and remain one of the most popular Easter candies today.
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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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"Yo momma" jokes/insults were invented by Shakespeare.
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When Charles Darwin first discovered the Galapagos Tortoises, he tried to ride them!
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Napoleon Bonaparte thought torture should be abolished because the information obtained from it is worthless.
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There is a 600 year old 240 paged book called the Voynich Manuscript, that’s written language is still completely unknown today.
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The exact cause of death and burial site of Genghis Khan is unknown, because all of the 2000 funeral guests and 800 soldiers were killed in order to preserve the secret.
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Astronomer Percival Lowell believed that he was the first person to observe canals on Venus, but because of a faulty adjustment of the eyepiece on his telescope, he was in fact looking at the blood vessels in his own eye.
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