In Ancient Greece, the normal size of a jury was about 500 people.

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Purple is known as a ‘royal’ color because it was the hardest dye to extract, as it came from sea snails, so only the royalty could afford it.

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Adolf Hitler was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1939.

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Lamas in ancient Tibet were boiled in butter before being embalmed.

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Nikola Tesla was born around midnight during a fierce lightning storm.

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In 2006, some volunteers climbed Britain’s highest mountain and found a piano on top of it.

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Franklin D. Roosevelt, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Bela Lugosi and Igor Stravinsky were all bornin the same year: 1882.

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In the 18th century, tobacco was used for ‘rectal inflation’: blowing smoke up the anus to resuscitate the drowned.

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