Pineapples were such a status symbol in 18th century England that you could rent one for the evening to take to a party.
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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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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 1999, a fisherman found a love letter in a bottle from a soldier in WWI. He returned said letter to the now deceased widows 86 year old daughter.
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Iceland has been so culturally isolated through history since the Vikings, that compared to other Scandinavian counties, people who speak Icelandic can still read the old Norsk sagas.
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Napoleon Bonaparte thought torture should be abolished because the information obtained from it is worthless.
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