Romans used a plant called Silphium as contraception. They had so much sex that they drove it into extinction.
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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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A man named Heraclitus had an illness that made his body swell up with water. To try to sweat it off, he buried himself in a steaming pile of animal poo, but then overheated and died of dehydration.
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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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The University of Oxford (teaching since 1096) predates the Aztec empire (1428 - 1521).
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When the Egyptians destroyed Libya in the 13th century B.C. they took 13,230 penises of the conquered enemies as trophies.
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