Pineapples were such a status symbol in 18th century England that you could rent one for the evening to take to a party.
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In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
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After Germany surrendered in WW2, people in Moscow partied until the entire city actually ran out of vodka.
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Clocks made before 1660 had only one hand - an hour hand.
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The first coast-to-coast telephone line was established in 1914.
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Only eight men were killed in the battle of lexington!
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The Taj Mahal took 20 years and 20 thousand men to finish!
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A monk had once written over a book that contained information about calculus that was written by Archimedes in ancient Greece that could have made us 100 or even 1000 years more mathematically and technologically advanced.
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