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• [History fact 1] In 2016, a 99-million-year old Daddy Longlegs was found fossilized inside amber sporting a penis that grew to nearly half of his body length when it was erect.

  History, Insectssource

• [History fact 2] When the Monopoly game was introduced to communist Czechoslovakia, private businesses were illegal and mortgages didn’t exist, so they turned it into a horse racing variant.

  History, Miscsource

• [History fact 3] In the 14th century, ships would catapult beehives onto the decks of enemy ships to clear the way for boarding parties.

  History, Insects, Weaponssource

• [History fact 4] The Roman civilization technically lasted for 2,200 years. It was founded as a monarchy in 753 BC, became a republic in 509 BC, turned into an empire in 27 BC, shifted capital to Constantinople in 330 AD, and finally fell only in 1453 AD.

  History, Peoplesource

• [History fact 5] Since 1957 the BBC have been playing April Fool pranks on their viewers. Their hoax in 2010 was claiming that they had proof that Shakespeare was French.

  History, Mediasource

• [History fact 6] In 1054 a supernova in the Constellation Taurus was observed that was bright enough to remain visible during daylight for perhaps as long as 23 days. The remnant of the supernova, which consists of debris ejected during the explosion, is now known as the Crab Nebula.

  History, Space, Timesource

• [History fact 7] The most expensive fossil ever sold was Sue the T-Rex. It is a 40-foot 80% complete specimen which was discovered in South Dakota in 1990. She was sold at an auction to Chicago’s Field Museum for $7.6 million.

  Animals, Finance, Historysource

• [History fact 8] In the Blue Lake Rhino Cave in Washington State there is a 14.5 million-year-old cast of an early Rhino ancestor about 300-feet up the side of a cliff, which was created when basalt lava slowly covered the corpse floating upside down in an ancient lake.

  History, Placessource

• [History fact 9] Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's father descended from Black Loyalists, who escaped to Nova Scotia after the Revolutionary War on the promise of British emancipation.

  Actors, Historysource

• [History fact 10] Graffiti from the walls of the ancient city of Pompeii have been unearthed and translated, showing that human behavior has remained unchanged in the past 2000 or so years.

  History, Travelsource

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