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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In Ancient Egypt, some people paid their taxes in honey.
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Nazi leader Adolf Hitler had only one testicle.
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In Ancient Greece, if a woman watched even one Olympic event, she was executed.
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During the 1600's, boys and girls in England wore dresses until they were about seven years old.
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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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