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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Rio de Janeiro was once capital of Portugal, making it the only European capital outside of Europe.
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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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Leonardo Da Vinci predicted the mass use of solar energy as long ago as 1447.
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