The Canadian province of New Brunswick (which was part of the UK at the time) had a bloodless war with the US state of Maine in 1839
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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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The average life span of a peasant during the medieval ages was 25 years.
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Romans used a plant called Silphium as contraception. They had so much sex that they drove it into extinction.
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The first coast-to-coast telephone line was established in 1914.
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Approximately 40% of the U.S. paper currency in circulation was counterfeit by the end of the Civil War.
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"Yo momma" jokes/insults were invented by Shakespeare.
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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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