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    In 1897, Bayer, who is the maker of Aspirin, marketed the drug heroin.
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    Leonardo Da Vinci predicted the mass use of solar energy as long ago as 1447.
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    Knocker-Up
    Knocker-Up
    Until the 1920s, there was a profession called 'knocker-up', which involved going from client to client and tapping on their windows (or banging on their doors) with long sticks until they woke up.
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    The native Americans planted three sisters (corn, beans, and squash) together so that they would benefit each other. The corn provides a structure for the beans to climb. The beans provide the nitrogen to the soil, and the squash spreads along the ground preventing weeds.
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    Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
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    The ancient Egyptians thought the function of the brain was to produce snot.
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    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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    In Ancient Greece, if a woman watched even one Olympic event, she was executed.
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