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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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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During the Black Plague, it was thought that bad smells were the cause of the plague. "Plague Doctors" therefore wore masks with long beak-like noses stuffed with flowers or smoke to hide the smells.
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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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There’s a Swedish power metal band called “Sabaton” who teach history through their music, including an album devoted to teaching about World War Two.
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It has been calculated that every 2 minutes, we take more pictures than all of humanity in the 19th century.
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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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