Early Romans used to use porcupine quills as toothpicks.
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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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Clocks made before 1660 had only one hand - an hour hand.
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In 1987 American Airlines saved $40,000 by eliminating one olive from its First Class salads.
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English sailors were referred to as "limeys" because sailors added lime juice to their diet to combat scurvy.
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In Ancient Greece, if a woman watched even one Olympic event, she was executed.
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The first bomb dropped by the Allies on berlin in WW2 killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
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"Yo momma" jokes/insults were invented by Shakespeare.
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