There's a bar in Ireland (presently named Sean’s Bar) that was opened in 900AD.
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Clocks made before 1660 had only one hand - an hour hand.
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The first telephone book was one page long and had only 50 names in it.
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Approximately 25,000 workers died during the building of the Panama Canal, and approximately 20,000 of them contracted malaria and yellow fever.
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The average life span of a peasant during the medieval ages was 25 years.
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English sailors were referred to as "limeys" because sailors added lime juice to their diet to combat scurvy.
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Because metal was scarce; the Oscars given out during World War II were made of plaster.
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