In medieval Italy, if a man was caught kissing a woman in public, he had to marry her whether he liked it or not.
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The World Trade Center towers used to have two zip codes, 10047-10048, one for each building.
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There is a 600 year old 240 paged book called the Voynich Manuscript, that’s written language is still completely unknown today.
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Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards.
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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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The handbook issued to US soldiers in Britain during WW2 included the line "The British don't know how to make a good cup of coffee. You don't know how to make a good cup of tea. It's an even swap."
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