No one knows how many people died during the sinking of the Titanic.
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There are pictures of Knights fighting Snails in old Medieval manuscripts - and nobody knows why.
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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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The U.S. motto, 'In God We Trust', was not adopted as the national slogan until 1956.
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The ancient Egyptians thought the function of the brain was to produce snot.
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The University of Oxford (teaching since 1096) predates the Aztec empire (1428 - 1521).
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A monk had once written over a book that contained information about calculus that was written by Archimedes in ancient Greece that could have made us 100 or even 1000 years more mathematically and technologically advanced.
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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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