There's a bar in Ireland (presently named Sean’s Bar) that was opened in 900AD.
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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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There are pictures of Knights fighting Snails in old Medieval manuscripts - and nobody knows why.
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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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There’s a Swedish power metal band called “Sabaton” who teach history through their music, including an album devoted to teaching about World War Two.
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The ancient Egyptians thought the function of the brain was to produce snot.
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A man named Heraclitus had an illness that made his body swell up with water. To try to sweat it off, he buried himself in a steaming pile of animal poo, but then overheated and died of dehydration.
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