Recently, archaeologists excavating in the old medieval town of Odense in Denmark uncovered 700-year-old barrels of poop - and, to their surprise, they still smelt.
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It has been calculated that every 2 minutes, we take more pictures than all of humanity in the 19th century.
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In 1518, a "dancing plague" struck Strasbourg, Alsace, whereby hundreds of people danced fervently in the streets over the period of a month. Some suffered heart attacks or strokes, and many others died from sheer exhaustion. It remains unexplained.
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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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There is a 600 year old 240 paged book called the Voynich Manuscript, that’s written language is still completely unknown today.
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50 years ago Cheerios were called Cheerioats.
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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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