In 1518, a "dancing plague" struck Strasbourg, Alsace, whereby hundreds of people danced fervently in the streets over the period of a month. Some suffered heart attacks or strokes, and many others died from sheer exhaustion. It remains unexplained.
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During the Black Plague, it was thought that bad smells were the cause of the plague. "Plague Doctors" therefore wore masks with long beak-like noses stuffed with flowers or smoke to hide the smells.
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In Ancient Greece, if a woman watched even one Olympic event, she was executed.
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Pilgrims did not eat with forks. They only used spoons, knives and their fingers.
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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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The first telephone book was one page long and had only 50 names in it.
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Leonardo Da Vinci predicted the mass use of solar energy as long ago as 1447.
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