In 2011, a couple bought a box of textbooks for $10. Inside, they found a 25-cent bill signed by the president of the Republic of Texas, Sam Houston, and subsequently sold it for $63,250.
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The University of Oxford (teaching since 1096) predates the Aztec empire (1428 - 1521).
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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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In the 1830s, a Greek prime minister tried to spread the potato in Greece but people weren't interested so he put armed guards in front of shipments of potatoes so people would think they were important. People then started stealing these potatoes so much that the crop spread to all of Greece.
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An underwater forest off the coast of Alabama that is 50,000 years old was uncovered by Hurricane Katrina.
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There’s a Swedish power metal band called “Sabaton” who teach history through their music, including an album devoted to teaching about World War Two.
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"Yo momma" jokes/insults were invented by Shakespeare.
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In Ancient Greece, small penises were desirable, and big ones were for ‘old men and barbarians’
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