In ancient Greece, tossing an apple to a girl was a traditional proposal of marriage. Catching it meant that she accepted.
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Ancient Romans at one time used human urine as an ingredient in their toothpaste.
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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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A baboon called Jackie became a private in the South African army in World War I.
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Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
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Nazi leader Adolf Hitler had only one testicle.
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In 1897, Bayer, who is the maker of Aspirin, marketed the drug heroin.
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In 1963, the US Military created an artificial ring around Earth, similar to that of the planet Saturn. The ring was made of copper needles and was used for worldwide communications in the case that the Soviets disabled all other methods of communication.
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