The Colosseum has long been known as a site of Christian martyrdom. It was converted into a shrine as early as the sixth century and still serves as the venue for the Vatican's Good Friday services. However, there is no evidence that Christian persecutions ever took place in the Colosseum.
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The Guinness Book of Records was originally published by Guinness Breweries as a reference for settling bar arguments.
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Antarctica is a a desert and is the driest place on the planet, with an absolute humidity lower than the Gobi desert.
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"If you are an average-sized adult you will contain within your modest frame no less than 7x10^18 joules of potential energy – enough to explode with the force of thirty very large hydrogen bombs, assuming you knew how to liberate it and really wished to make a point" - A Short History of Nearly Everything [Bill Bryson]
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Clocks made before 1660 had only one hand, to show the hour.
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Pigs, walruses and light-colored horses are prone to get sunburned.
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It is not uncommon for a cow caving to prolapse.
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•Wolves are excellent hunters and have been found to be living in more places in the world than any other mammal except humans.
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To take an oath, ancient Romans put a hand on their testicles.
I wonder what the women used ?:biggrin:
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The line, "To boldly go where no man has gone before" was hijacked verbatim from a 1957 White House booklet on space exploration.
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