Ancient Greeks believed that redheads turned into vampires after they died.
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France’s King Louis XIV was offered biological weapons by an Italian chemist. He not only refused, but also paid the chemist an annual salary to never reveal the technology to anyone else.
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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 first semi-permanent settlements appeared in Florida around 5000 B.C.
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During World War 1, starving wolves amassed in such great numbers that Germans and Russians had a temporary cease fire to fight off the wolf attacks.
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Leonardo Da Vinci loved animals so much that he used to buy caged animals at the market just to set them free.
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London's Pall Mall became the first street lit by gaslight in 1807!
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English sailors were referred to as "limeys" because sailors added lime juice to their diet to combat scurvy.
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