39. Vlad also enjoyed sopping up his enemies' blood with bread and eating it. This disturbing practice, along with his family name of Dracula and birthplace of Transylvania, inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula.
40. African-American men were not deemed equal members of the Mormon Church until 1978.
41. South Africans gave gay and lesbian soldiers sex changes in an attempt to root out homosexuality in their army.
42. In early Rome a father could legally kill anyone in his family.
43. After finding a 36,000 year old steppe bison preserved in the ice, Alaskan zoology professor R. Dale Guthrie and his team ate some of its flesh. Guthrie said "the meat was well aged but still a little tough."
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