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Platform shoes didn’t just look ridiculous in the 1970s; they looked equally silly in 15th-century Europe, when they were known as chopines. The fashionable footwear was so toweringly high (up to 30 inches!) that ladies couldn’t walk around in them for fear of falling.

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The Brothers Grimm didn’t write much of Grimm’s Fairy Tales. They simply recorded the stories they were told by locals, and gathered them together in a collection.

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Walt Disney’s famous “logo” signature wasn’t really his; it was designed by a staff artist.

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Gilbert L. Loomis of Westfield, Massachusetts, was the first American to purchase an auto insurance policy in 1897.

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The largest collection of Christian relics outside of the Vatican is in Pittsburgh, PA. In the 19th century, a priest and doctor named Suitbert Mollinger became the parish priest of St. Anthony’s in Pittsburgh, and he soon took to gathering the saintly remains. By his death in 1892, he had 5,000 of them– including St. Anthony’s tooth and St. Ursula’s femur.