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The Romans had public toilets that removed human waste to the river but 1,000 years later people went back to throwing their waste into the street!...

Everyone knows that pizza came from Italy but they may not know that tomatoes came from the Americas. The Europeans thought tomatoes were poisonous...

The pen has a long history. It began as a sharpened reed used by Ancient Egyptians, but the reed point dulled quickly. It was replaced by a feather...

In 1828, a young French cook learned how to make the chef's specialty, round sliced potatoes fried in grease until crispy. Jean Frederic thought th...

The Greeks and Romans were the first to use a fork, but it was shaped like a claw and used in the kitchen for cooking, not for eating, which was do...

The Romans made the first important discovery about vision. They found that you could see better by looking through a bowl of water, which made wha...