Grenades were invented in China over 1,000 years ago.
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Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
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The flushing toilet was invented in 1596, not by Thomas Crapper as most people think, but by Sir John Harington.
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Early Romans used to use porcupine quills as toothpicks.
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The U.S. motto, 'In God We Trust', was not adopted as the national slogan until 1956.
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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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In 1958, a nuclear bomb was lost somewhere along the swampy coast of Georgia. Its whereabouts remain a mystery to this day.
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There's a bar in Ireland (presently named Sean’s Bar) that was opened in 900AD.
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