Romans used a plant called Silphium as contraception. They had so much sex that they drove it into extinction.
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The Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers founded in 1744, is the world's oldest golf club!
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The universally popular Hershey bar was used overseas during World War II as currency.
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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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When Charles Darwin first discovered the Galapagos Tortoises, he tried to ride them!
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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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