There's no evidence that pirates made people walk the plank.
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The first semi-permanent settlements appeared in Florida around 5000 B.C.
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Everton FC used to be called St Domingo's FC!
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Early Romans used to use porcupine quills as toothpicks.
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The range of a medieval long-bow is 220 yards.
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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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The Grateful Dead were once called 'The Warlocks'.
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In 1976 an LA secretary named Jannene Swift officially married a 50 pound rock in a ceremony witnessed by more than 20 people.
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