To take an oath, ancient Romans put a hand on their testicles
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Early American humans hunted car-size armadillos and used their shells for houses.
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Recently, archaeologists excavating in the old medieval town of Odense in Denmark uncovered 700-year-old barrels of poop - and, to their surprise, they still smelt.
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Originally, Du Pont, Inc. was a tiny gun powder mill in New Jersey.
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The first bomb dropped on Germany in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin zoo!
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The site where the Parthenon was built had to be cleared of hundreds of dinosaur bones (then called giants' bones) before construction could begin.
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Beethoven, was told by a music teacher that he had no talent for music. In fact, this teacher once remarked, “As a composer he is hopeless.”
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