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In a museum I saw a display about a 8.5 earthquake in Crete on 21 July A.D. 365 - how did geologists find out about the magnitude?
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When countries went to war in the 16th or 17th century - did their leaders think about sacrificing young people?
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TIL that London's East End is where the poor lived because of the wind (= pollution) from the west, and it is downstream of the Themse. Is that true for all major cities in the 12th-18th century?
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Parts of Ricinus communis plant are highly toxic, yet humans found out that Castor oil might be a good thing to have. How did mankind find this out? Luck, stupidity or science?
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