There's a bar in Ireland (presently named Sean’s Bar) that was opened in 900AD.
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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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In 1999, Pepsi, Inc. paid $0.00 in income tax!
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If a surgeon in Ancient Egypt lost a patient while performing an operation, his hands were cut off.
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The Canadian province of New Brunswick (which was part of the UK at the time) had a bloodless war with the US state of Maine in 1839
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During the Gold Rush in 1849, some people paid as much as $100 for a glass of water!
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During World War II, Uncle Ben's was the exclusive supplier of rice to the U.S. Armed Forces.
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If Earth's history was condensed into twenty-four hours, life would've appeared at around 4am, land plants at 10:24pm, dinosaur extinction at 11:41pm, and human history would’ve began at 11:58:43pm.
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