During the Black Plague, it was thought that bad smells were the cause of the plague. "Plague Doctors" therefore wore masks with long beak-like noses stuffed with flowers or smoke to hide the smells.
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No one knows how many people died during the sinking of the Titanic.
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During World War 1, starving wolves amassed in such great numbers that Germans and Russians had a temporary cease fire to fight off the wolf attacks.
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Leonardo Da Vinci predicted the mass use of solar energy as long ago as 1447.
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The Titanic is about as long as the Empire State building is tall.
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Romans used a plant called Silphium as contraception. They had so much sex that they drove it into extinction.
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Hundreds of years ago, the Aztecs of Mexico and the people of Nicaragua believed gods lived in volcanoes. They would sacrifice beautiful young girls to these powerful gods.
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