Pilgrims did not eat with forks. They only used spoons, knives and their fingers.
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Ancient Romans at one time used human urine as an ingredient in their toothpaste.
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In the 1830s, a Greek prime minister tried to spread the potato in Greece but people weren't interested so he put armed guards in front of shipments of potatoes so people would think they were important. People then started stealing these potatoes so much that the crop spread to all of Greece.
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The Mint once considered producing doughnut-shaped coins!
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The life expectancy in 1900 was just 47 years.
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The Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers founded in 1744, is the world's oldest golf club!
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Early American humans hunted car-size armadillos and used their shells for houses.
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Leonardo Da Vinci predicted the mass use of solar energy as long ago as 1447.
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