During the Gold Rush in 1849, some people paid as much as $100 for a glass of water!
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France’s King Louis XIV was offered biological weapons by an Italian chemist. He not only refused, but also paid the chemist an annual salary to never reveal the technology to anyone else.
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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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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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When the Egyptians destroyed Libya in the 13th century B.C. they took 13,230 penises of the conquered enemies as trophies.
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In Ancient Greece, small penises were desirable, and big ones were for ‘old men and barbarians’
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In 1537, England's King Henry VII officially declared February 14th the holiday of St. Valentine's Day.
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