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 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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In 1949, an official boxing match between a bear and a man was held. The bear won.
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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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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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Pineapples were such a status symbol in 18th century England that you could rent one for the evening to take to a party.
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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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