If a surgeon in Ancient Egypt lost a patient while performing an operation, his hands were cut off.
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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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Napoleon Bonaparte thought torture should be abolished because the information obtained from it is worthless.
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In 1700s, the deer skin was a common medium of exchange between the trading settlers and the native Red Indians in America. This is how a buck became a slang for a dollar.
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The first bomb dropped on Germany in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin zoo!
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The site where the Parthenon was built had to be cleared of hundreds of dinosaur bones (then called giants' bones) before construction could begin.
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It is estimated that there is in excess of 3,000,000,000 bibles been sold throughout the world!
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The University of Oxford (teaching since 1096) predates the Aztec empire (1428 - 1521).
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