When Columbus discovered the “America’s”, it was already inhabited by 90 million natives and represented a third of the world’s population.

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In the past hundred years, humans on average are four inches taller and 50% heavier that they have been in all of civilized history.

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One of the strange ways in which intelligence services wanted to bring a swifter end to World War II: Spike Hitler’s food with oestrogen to make him more feminine.

That might be frowned upon by college students today as it would “force gender roles on someone without their permission.”

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Nostradamus published a cookbook.

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George Washington borrowed The Law of Nations by Emer de Vattel on October 5, 1789 from the New York Library. It was missing from a ledger of books catalogued between 1789-1792.  A copy of the book was returned to the library in 2010. The theoretical fines the Former President would have been assessed amount to roughly $300,000.

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Vladimir Lenin owned 9 Rolls Royce’s during his time as Leader of the Soviet Union.

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The longest sentence ever served in the US was by inmate Paul Geidel. He served 68 years in prison.

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