50 years ago Cheerios were called Cheerioats.
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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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In 1949, an official boxing match between a bear and a man was held. The bear won.
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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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Pierre Jaquet-Droz, a watchmaker, 240 years ago invented a robot that could write, and the parts could be interchanged to say whatever you want.
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In real life, Pocahontas was 11 years old when she met John Smith - he was 28.
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The University of Oxford (teaching since 1096) predates the Aztec empire (1428 - 1521).
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