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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Chunosuke Matsuyama, a Japanese Seaman, sent a message in a bottle in 1784 that his ship had wrecked. It washed up in 1935 in the village where he was born.
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The ancient Egyptians thought the function of the brain was to produce snot.
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20 years ago, there were only 130 websites, Google wasn't around, and you had to pay for an email account through an ISP.
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In the 1830s, a Greek prime minister tried to spread the potato in Greece but people weren't interested so he put armed guards in front of shipments of potatoes so people would think they were important. People then started stealing these potatoes so much that the crop spread to all of Greece.
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When Charles Darwin first discovered the Galapagos Tortoises, he tried to ride them!
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