Romans used a plant called Silphium as contraception. They had so much sex that they drove it into extinction.
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Unsinkable Sam (nickname of a German ship's cat) who served on 3 warships, one German, two British, all sank in action. The cat survived each sinking, floating away on wooden planks to rescue.
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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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Iceland has been so culturally isolated through history since the Vikings, that compared to other Scandinavian counties, people who speak Icelandic can still read the old Norsk sagas.
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Neil Armstrong, the first man to step foot on the moon, carried with him a piece of cloth and wood from the original 1903 Wright Flyer.
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Leonardo Da Vinci loved animals so much that he used to buy caged animals at the market just to set them free.
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