The oldest glowing lightbulb was first switched on in 1901 and lives in fire stations in Livermore, CA. It is known as the Centennial Light.
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Romans used a plant called Silphium as contraception. They had so much sex that they drove it into extinction.
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The ancient Egyptians thought the function of the brain was to produce snot.
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Modern humans first appeared about 200,000 years ago, but record keeping didn't begin until about 6,000 years ago. That means about 97% of human history is lost.
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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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A Kodak engineer constructed the first digital camera in 1975. They didn't want to go digital. They went bankrupt in 2012.
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In 1799, a boy found a 17lb. rock in a creek in North Carolina and used it as a doorstop. It was actually gold.
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