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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In Ancient Egypt, some people paid their taxes in honey.
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A WW2 observation pilot, bored of not being in combat, decided to strap 6 bazookas to his plane. He destroyed several enemy tanks and vehicles. His name was Lt. Col. Charles Carpenter, aka Bazooka Charlie / The Mad Major.
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Allegedly, Chrysippus, the Greek philosopher, died of laughter after getting his donkey drunk and watching it try to eat figs.
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In the 1830s, a Greek prime minister tried to spread the potato in Greece but people weren't interested so he put armed guards in front of shipments of potatoes so people would think they were important. People then started stealing these potatoes so much that the crop spread to all of Greece.
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Leonardo Da Vinci predicted the mass use of solar energy as long ago as 1447.
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London's Pall Mall became the first street lit by gaslight in 1807!
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No one knows how many people died during the sinking of the Titanic.
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