Early Romans used to use porcupine quills as toothpicks.
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The University of Oxford (teaching since 1096) predates the Aztec empire (1428 - 1521).
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No one knows how many people died during the sinking of the Titanic.
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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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Cleopatra married two of her brothers.
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During the Black Plague, it was thought that bad smells were the cause of the plague. "Plague Doctors" therefore wore masks with long beak-like noses stuffed with flowers or smoke to hide the smells.
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If a surgeon in Ancient Egypt lost a patient while performing an operation, his hands were cut off.
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The ancient Egyptians thought the function of the brain was to produce snot.
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