In 1799, a boy found a 17lb. rock in a creek in North Carolina and used it as a doorstop. It was actually gold.
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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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The Nestles haven't run Nestle since 1875.
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The Grateful Dead were once called 'The Warlocks'.
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When Charles Darwin first discovered the Galapagos Tortoises, he tried to ride them!
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In medieval Italy, if a man was caught kissing a woman in public, he had to marry her whether he liked it or not.
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