The ancient Egyptians thought the function of the brain was to produce snot.
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The first bomb dropped by the Allies on berlin in WW2 killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
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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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Jericho is the oldest walled city in the world at 9,000 yrs old!
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Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
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Tickling was a form of torture used in ancient China on nobility because it left no mark and recovery was quick.
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The site where the Parthenon was built had to be cleared of hundreds of dinosaur bones (then called giants' bones) before construction could begin.
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