There are pictures of Knights fighting Snails in old Medieval manuscripts - and nobody knows why.
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The first bomb dropped by the Allies on berlin in WW2 killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
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The life expectancy in 1900 was just 47 years.
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Picasso’s full name: Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso.
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Cleopatra wasn't Egyptian; she was Greek.
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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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In 1537, England's King Henry VII officially declared February 14th the holiday of St. Valentine's Day.
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Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
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