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Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone.
In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
In ancient times strangers shook hands to show that they were unarmed.
3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30.
In ancient Egypt, people used to shave their eyebrows to mourn the death of their cats.
In ancient China doctors would only receive fees if the patient stayed in good health. Sometimes if the patients health became to bad, the doctor had to pay them.
Married women could not view the Olympic Games in ancient Greece under penalty of death.
Glasses have been worn for about 700 years.
About 300 years ago, people used toothbrushes made from hog bristles.
During the Middle Ages, people used spider webs to try to cure warts.
Rockets were first made by the Chinese more than 750 years ago.
The 100 years war lasted 116 years.
During Martin Luther’s Reformation, he claimed the Catholic Church to be the anti-christ, and in response, they claimed he was the anti-christ. The common people, assuming one must be the anti-christ, believed that the acopalypse was coming. It never did.
The first sound recording ever made: “Mary Had a Little Lamb” in 1877.
In 1848, Niagara Falls stopped flowing for 30 hours because of an ice jam blocking the Niagara River.

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