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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Ancient Greeks believed that redheads turned into vampires after they died.
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When the Egyptians destroyed Libya in the 13th century B.C. they took 13,230 penises of the conquered enemies as trophies.
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Traces of cocaine were found on 99% of UK bank notes in a survey in London in 2000.
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Che Guevara suffered from asthma!
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Leonardo Da Vinci made a robotic lion in 1515 that would walk, sway, open its mouth and move its tail - it even had a compartment that opened to present flowers.
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The University of Oxford (teaching since 1096) predates the Aztec empire (1428 - 1521).
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