In 1897, Bayer, who is the makers of Aspirin, once marketed the drug heroin.

Pepper was sold as individual grains during the Elizabethan times. The guards at the London docks had to sew up their pockets so they would not steal any of the pepper.

Even today, 90% of the continental United States is still open space or farmland.

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