Pilgrims did not eat with forks. They only used spoons, knives and their fingers.
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The Nestles haven't run Nestle since 1875.
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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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There is a 600 year old 240 paged book called the Voynich Manuscript, that’s written language is still completely unknown today.
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The University of Oxford (teaching since 1096) predates the Aztec empire (1428 - 1521).
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In ancient Greece, tossing an apple to a girl was a traditional proposal of marriage. Catching it meant that she accepted.
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A singing birthday card has more computing power than the allied forces in 1945.
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The first telephone book was one page long and had only 50 names in it.
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