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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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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There is a 600 year old 240 paged book called the Voynich Manuscript, that’s written language is still completely unknown today.
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In 1897, Bayer, who is the maker of Aspirin, marketed the drug heroin.
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India invented the Number System. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.
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Contrary to popular belief, the first ironclad warships were built by Korea in the 16th century.
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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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