Scientists are learning from the 1700-year-old Lycurgus Cup, which changes colour thanks to nano particles.
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Alligator snapping turtles can live for over 150 years. Scientists know this because some of the turtles had musket balls in their stomachs.
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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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"Yo momma" jokes/insults were invented by Shakespeare.
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There are pictures of Knights fighting Snails in old Medieval manuscripts - and nobody knows why.
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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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