There's a bar in Ireland (presently named Sean’s Bar) that was opened in 900AD.
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Shakespeare invented over 1,700 words that we use today.
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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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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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Ancient Greeks believed that redheads turned into vampires after they died.
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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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Astronomer Percival Lowell believed that he was the first person to observe canals on Venus, but because of a faulty adjustment of the eyepiece on his telescope, he was in fact looking at the blood vessels in his own eye.
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