The Aztecs were the first to serve chocolate as a drink. They also mixed it with hot chili pepper to make it really 'hot'.
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In real life, Pocahontas was 11 years old when she met John Smith - he was 28.
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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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In Ancient Greece, small penises were desirable, and big ones were for ‘old men and barbarians’
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The word 'mile' is derived from the Latin word for 1,000 - the number of paces it took the average Roman!
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In 1949, an official boxing match between a bear and a man was held. The bear won.
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