Originally, Du Pont, Inc. was a tiny gun powder mill in New Jersey.
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In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
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In 1700s, the deer skin was a common medium of exchange between the trading settlers and the native Red Indians in America. This is how a buck became a slang for a dollar.
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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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Traces of cocaine were found on 99% of UK bank notes in a survey in London in 2000.
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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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The University of Oxford (teaching since 1096) predates the Aztec empire (1428 - 1521).
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