Kayakers Came Across a Chilling Secret While Out on the River

The Rosetta Stone

Napoleon Bonaparte failed his mission to search for relics in Ancient Egyypt, and if he hadn't overlooked the Rosetta Stone, he would have realized what an important discovery he'd made. An institude examined the stone with several different languages of writing on it and determined that it was the starting place to study linguistics....

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The More You Know

  • George Lazenby wasn't an actual actor. He got himself a suit, a Rolex and a new haircut, then met with the producer and made up movies he had been in. He later landed the role of James Bond.
  • In 1966 and 1967, soldiers testing Agent Orange in Canada were told the chemical was completely safe and sprayed it on each other to cool off.
  • Indians read the most out of any nationality.
  • War pigs were used in ancient warfare to counter against war elephants, which feared the pigs (and their squeals) and would bolt. War pigs were sometimes lit on fire to enhance this effect.
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