Early Romans used to use porcupine quills as toothpicks.
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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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No one knows how many people died during the sinking of the Titanic.
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In ancient Greece, tossing an apple to a girl was a traditional proposal of marriage. Catching it meant that she accepted.
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"Yo momma" jokes/insults were invented by Shakespeare.
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In Ancient Greece, if a woman watched even one Olympic event, she was executed.
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The World Trade Center towers used to have two zip codes, 10047-10048, one for each building.
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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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