There's no evidence that pirates made people walk the plank.
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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 Rome it was considered a sign of leadership to be born with a crooked nose!
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The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.
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The World Trade Center towers used to have two zip codes, 10047-10048, one for each building.
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In 1700s, the deer skin was a common medium of exchange between the trading settlers and the native Red Indians in America. This is how a buck became a slang for a dollar.
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If Earth's history was condensed into twenty-four hours, life would've appeared at around 4am, land plants at 10:24pm, dinosaur extinction at 11:41pm, and human history would’ve began at 11:58:43pm.
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