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 could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
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Early Romans used to use porcupine quills as toothpicks.
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Approximately 25,000 workers died during the building of the Panama Canal, and approximately 20,000 of them contracted malaria and yellow fever.
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In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
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In 1799, a boy found a 17lb. rock in a creek in North Carolina and used it as a doorstop. It was actually gold.
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