The first semi-permanent settlements appeared in Florida around 5000 B.C.
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Jericho is the oldest walled city in the world at 9,000 yrs old!
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In 1897, Bayer, who is the maker of Aspirin, marketed the drug heroin.
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The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.
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In the 1830s, a Greek prime minister tried to spread the potato in Greece but people weren't interested so he put armed guards in front of shipments of potatoes so people would think they were important. People then started stealing these potatoes so much that the crop spread to all of Greece.
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