Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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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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In ancient Athens, the worlds first democracy, they had a process called ostracism, where once a year the people could vote on the politician they thought was most destructive to the democratic process. The “winner” was banished from Athens for 10 years.
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In real life, Pocahontas was 11 years old when she met John Smith - he was 28.
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There's a bar in Ireland (presently named Sean’s Bar) that was opened in 900AD.
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Instead of McDonald's tearing down a ~200-year-old Georgian mansion, citizens of a small NY town forced them to renovate it instead, resulting in a uniquely historic franchise location.
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In Ancient Greece, small penises were desirable, and big ones were for ‘old men and barbarians’
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