Romans used a plant called Silphium as contraception. They had so much sex that they drove it into extinction.
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The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.
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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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The first coast-to-coast telephone line was established in 1914.
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After Germany surrendered in WW2, people in Moscow partied until the entire city actually ran out of vodka.
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If Earth's history was condensed into twenty-four hours, life would've appeared at around 4am, land plants at 10:24pm, dinosaur extinction at 11:41pm, and human history would’ve began at 11:58:43pm.
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Traces of cocaine were found on 99% of UK bank notes in a survey in London in 2000.
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Only eight men were killed in the battle of lexington!
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