In 1700s, the deer skin was a common medium of exchange between the trading settlers and the native Red Indians in America. This is how a buck became a slang for a dollar.
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In ancient Rome it was considered a sign of leadership to be born with a crooked nose!
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In Ancient Greece, small penises were desirable, and big ones were for ‘old men and barbarians’
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A B-25 bomber airplane crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building on July 28, 1945.
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Picasso’s full name: Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso.
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Clocks made before 1660 had only one hand - an hour hand.
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France’s King Louis XIV was offered biological weapons by an Italian chemist. He not only refused, but also paid the chemist an annual salary to never reveal the technology to anyone else.
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