Pineapples were such a status symbol in 18th century England that you could rent one for the evening to take to a party.
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If a surgeon in Ancient Egypt lost a patient while performing an operation, his hands were cut off.
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The life expectancy in 1900 was just 47 years.
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Leonardo Da Vinci made a robotic lion in 1515 that would walk, sway, open its mouth and move its tail - it even had a compartment that opened to present flowers.
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In Ancient Greece, if a woman watched even one Olympic event, she was executed.
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No one knows how many people died during the sinking of the Titanic.
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Approximately 25,000 workers died during the building of the Panama Canal, and approximately 20,000 of them contracted malaria and yellow fever.
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It is estimated that there is in excess of 3,000,000,000 bibles been sold throughout the world!
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