During the Black Plague, it was thought that bad smells were the cause of the plague. "Plague Doctors" therefore wore masks with long beak-like noses stuffed with flowers or smoke to hide the smells.
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Napoleon had conquered Italy by the time he was twenty-six.
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Only eight men were killed in the battle of lexington!
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The time interval from first sighting of the iceberg that sank the Titanic to impact was a little over 30 seconds.
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"Yo momma" jokes/insults were invented by Shakespeare.
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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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Leonardo Da Vinci loved animals so much that he used to buy caged animals at the market just to set them free.
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In 1897, Bayer, who is the maker of Aspirin, marketed the drug heroin.
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