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3/1/19	In medieval Europe, leeches were commonly used to treat babies' illnesses. For example, leeches were placed on a baby's windpipe for croup. Additionally, teething babies were commonly purged or bled.- Provided by FactRetriever.com
3/2/19	The publication of Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792) is generally thought to be the first conscious effort to engage polemically with issues of discrimination based on gender. She wrote it as a rejoinder to Swiss-French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau's argument that women were sentimental and frivolous and could only occupy a subordinate position to their husbands."- Provided by FactRetriever.com
3/3/19	In 1845, Congress decided that voting day would be the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, which was after the fall harvest and before winter conditions made travel too difficult.- Provided by FactRetriever.com
3/4/19	In A.D. 64, a huge fire destroyed half of Rome. Some claim Nero purposely set it so he could rebuild the city how he wanted it. The saying "Fiddling while Rome burns" comes from the story that Nero played his lyre while Rome burned.- Provided by FactRetriever.com
3/5/19	With 210 mile-per-hour winds at landfall, Hurricane Camille (1969) is the strongest hurricane to strike land. Typhoon Tip (1979), which did not strike land, is considered to be the largest, with tropical storm-force winds 1,350 miles in diameter.- Provided by FactRetriever.com
3/6/19	Jellyfish blooms near Japan can have over 500 million jellyfish, with each jellyfish the size of a refrigerator.- Provided by FactRetriever.com
3/7/19	Multiply 1,089 X 9, and you get the exact reverse: 9,801.- Provided by FactRetriever.com
3/8/19	Famous premature babies include Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton, Mark Twain, Stevie Wonder, Johannes Kepler, and Sir Winston Churchill.- Provided by FactRetriever.com
3/9/19	During the 1930s, a female Bengal tiger named Champawat killed over 400 people, making her one of the most well-known man-eating tigers in history.- Provided by FactRetriever.com
3/10/19	In the Tang dynasty, anyone with an education was expected to greet as well as say goodbye to another person in poetic verse composed on the spot- Provided by FactRetriever.com
3/11/19	Due to its high value, most gold discovered throughout history is still in circulation. However, it is thought that 80% of the world’s gold is still in the ground.- Provided by FactRetriever.com
3/12/19	Visiting teams wear (at least mostly) gray uniforms so fans can easily distinguish between the visiting team and the home team. The tradition dates back to the late 1800s when travelling teams did not have time to launder their uniforms and, consequently, wore gray to hide the dirt.- Provided by FactRetriever.com
3/13/19	Employees who have more control over the layout and design of their workspace are healthier and happier in the office.- Provided by FactRetriever.com
3/14/19	The purity of gold is measured in carat weight. The term "carat" comes from "carob seed," which was standard for weighing small quantities in the Middle East. Carats were the fruit of the leguminous carob tree, every single pod of which weighs 1/5 of a gram (200 mg).- Provided by FactRetriever.com
3/15/19	Lions can see six times better in the dark than a human. At night, a reflective coating on the back of their eyes helps capture moonlight. Additionally, they have a white patch of fur underneath their eyes that helps to reflect even more light.- Provided by FactRetriever.com
3/16/19	On the first night of sleeping in a new place, one hemisphere of our brain remains more active than the other during sleep. Scientists believe this "vigilant mode" allows us to respond more quickly to unfamiliar, potentially danger-signaling sounds.- Provided by FactRetriever.com
3/17/19	The first woman to run and finish the Boston Marathon was Roberta Gibb in 1966. However, because women were not allowed to officially enter the race until 1972, she did not get credit for it.- Provided by FactRetriever.com
3/18/19	The Ritz Carlton of Hong Kong has the world’s most expensive High Tea meal, at a price of $8,888 per couple.- Provided by FactRetriever.com
3/19/19	Probably built around 3000 B.C., Stonehenge has stood on England's Salisbury Plain for more than 5,000 years and is older than the famous Great Pyramids of Egypt.- Provided by FactRetriever.com
3/20/19	All humans develop a tail in the womb that eventually dissolves.- Provided by FactRetriever.com
3/21/19	Cosmic rays are highly energetic particles that flow throughout our solar system from deep in outer space, but astronomers are unsure of their origins.- Provided by FactRetriever.com
3/22/19	Peru is home to the highest sand dune in the world. Cerro Blanco is located in the Sechura Desert near the Nazca Lines and measures 3,860 feet (1,176 m) from base to summit.- Provided by FactRetriever.com
3/23/19	The first serial sex killer of the modern era was Jack the Ripper, who slaughtered five London streetwalkers.- Provided by FactRetriever.com
3/24/19	Iraq once had one of the highest quality schools and colleges in the Arab world. However, after the 1991 Gulf War and the United Nations sanctions, today only around 40% of Iraqis can read and write.- Provided by FactRetriever.com
3/25/19	An atmospheric phenomenon known as "the everlasting storm" occurs at the junction of the Catatumbo River and Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela. It produces thousands of lightning strikes per hour.- Provided by FactRetriever.com
3/26/19	Ludolph van Ceulen (1540-1610) spent most of his life calculating the first 36 digits of pi (which were named the Ludolphine Number). According to legend, these numbers were engraved on his now lost tombstone.- Provided by FactRetriever.com
3/27/19	John Adams' campaign propaganda against Jefferson said that if Jefferson was elected, "murder, robbery, rape, adultery, and incest will be openly taught and practiced." They later resolved their differences and wrote many letters to each other.- Provided by FactRetriever.com
3/28/19	Russia's and Belarus' ruble are named after a measure of weight for silver.- Provided by FactRetriever.com
3/29/19	Suspension bridges were invented in China in 25 B.C, 1,800 years before such bridges were known in the West.- Provided by FactRetriever.com
3/30/19	During the Iraq War, the U.S. military attached caged chickens on top of their Humvees to act as an early detection system for chemical weapons. They dubbed their strategy Operation Kuwaiti Field Chicken, or KFC.- Provided by FactRetriever.com
3/31/19	In 19th century Victorian England, women used beet juice to add a "red" shine to their hair.- Provided by FactRetriever.com

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