Mahatma Gandhi used to travel with his goat so that he could have fresh milk.
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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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In the 1830s, a Greek prime minister tried to spread the potato in Greece but people weren't interested so he put armed guards in front of shipments of potatoes so people would think they were important. People then started stealing these potatoes so much that the crop spread to all of Greece.
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Because metal was scarce; the Oscars given out during World War II were made of plaster.
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The Nestles haven't run Nestle since 1875.
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In 2011, archaeologists discovered the skeletal remains of a Roman couple who have been holding hands for 1,500 years.
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Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
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Early Romans used to use porcupine quills as toothpicks.
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