In 1799, a boy found a 17lb. rock in a creek in North Carolina and used it as a doorstop. It was actually gold.
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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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Jericho is the oldest walled city in the world at 9,000 yrs old!
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In medieval Italy, if a man was caught kissing a woman in public, he had to marry her whether he liked it or not.
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The flushing toilet was invented in 1596, not by Thomas Crapper as most people think, but by Sir John Harington.
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A B-25 bomber airplane crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building on July 28, 1945.
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