Pineapples were such a status symbol in 18th century England that you could rent one for the evening to take to a party.
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The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.
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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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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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The great wall of China is 1,400 miles long!
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A B-25 bomber airplane crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building on July 28, 1945.
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