20 years ago, there were only 130 websites, Google wasn't around, and you had to pay for an email account through an ISP.
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50 years ago Cheerios were called Cheerioats.
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Napoleon Bonaparte thought torture should be abolished because the information obtained from it is worthless.
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Daniel Webster, who ran for president and lost three times, declined the Vice Presidency twice, thinking it a worthless office. Both presidents who offered it later died in office, meaning that if he had accepted, he would’ve become president after all.
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In 2011, archaeologists discovered the skeletal remains of a Roman couple who have been holding hands for 1,500 years.
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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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The word 'mile' is derived from the Latin word for 1,000 - the number of paces it took the average Roman!
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In 1999, a fisherman found a love letter in a bottle from a soldier in WWI. He returned said letter to the now deceased widows 86 year old daughter.
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