In Ancient Egypt, some people paid their taxes in honey.
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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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The University of Oxford (teaching since 1096) predates the Aztec empire (1428 - 1521).
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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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The life expectancy in 1900 was just 47 years.
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Early American humans hunted car-size armadillos and used their shells for houses.
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The Nestles haven't run Nestle since 1875.
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The ancient Egyptians bought jewelry for their pet crocodiles.
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