Canada's new flag, with its maple leaf design, was unfurled in 1965 in Ottawa!
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In 1897, Bayer, who is the maker of Aspirin, marketed the drug heroin.
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The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.
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Genghis Khan exempted the poor and clergy from taxes, encouraged literacy, and established free religion, leading many peoples to join his empire before they were even conquered.
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In Ancient Greece, small penises were desirable, and big ones were for ‘old men and barbarians’
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The native Americans planted three sisters (corn, beans, and squash) together so that they would benefit each other. The corn provides a structure for the beans to climb. The beans provide the nitrogen to the soil, and the squash spreads along the ground preventing weeds.
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A monk had once written over a book that contained information about calculus that was written by Archimedes in ancient Greece that could have made us 100 or even 1000 years more mathematically and technologically advanced.
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