Rio de Janeiro was once capital of Portugal, making it the only European capital outside of Europe.
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Shakespeare invented over 1,700 words that we use today.
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There is a 600 year old 240 paged book called the Voynich Manuscript, that’s written language is still completely unknown today.
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In real life, Pocahontas was 11 years old when she met John Smith - he was 28.
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The ‘@’ sign is centuries old, and was used in Europe to denote a unit of weight (the “arroba”) equivalent to 25 lbs.
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France’s King Louis XIV was offered biological weapons by an Italian chemist. He not only refused, but also paid the chemist an annual salary to never reveal the technology to anyone else.
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