In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
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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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In 1770, the British Parliament passed a law condemning lipstick, stating that “women found guilty of seducing men into matrimony by a cosmetic means could be tried for witchcraft.”
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The ancient Egyptians thought the function of the brain was to produce snot.
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The University of Oxford (teaching since 1096) predates the Aztec empire (1428 - 1521).
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In 1700s, the deer skin was a common medium of exchange between the trading settlers and the native Red Indians in America. This is how a buck became a slang for a dollar.
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Genghis Khan exempted the poor and clergy from taxes, encouraged literacy, and established free religion, leading many peoples to join his empire before they were even conquered.
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