Romans used a plant called Silphium as contraception. They had so much sex that they drove it into extinction.
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There are pictures of Knights fighting Snails in old Medieval manuscripts - and nobody knows why.
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The first bomb dropped on Germany in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin zoo!
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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 1999, Pepsi, Inc. paid $0.00 in income tax!
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In 1982, a high school student from Los Angeles, California unscrambled the Rubik's Cube in 22.95 seconds.
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Leonardo Da Vinci made a robotic lion in 1515 that would walk, sway, open its mouth and move its tail - it even had a compartment that opened to present flowers.
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During World War 1, starving wolves amassed in such great numbers that Germans and Russians had a temporary cease fire to fight off the wolf attacks.
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