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[ * Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote his famous poem "Kubla Khan" while high on opium. He never finished it because a visitor knocked on the door and interrupted his creative reverie.... ]

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* Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote his famous poem "Kubla Khan" while high on opium. He never finished it because a visitor knocked on the door and interrupted his creative reverie.

* The word "buffalo" comes from the Latin "bubalus," meaning "wild ox." American buffalo are technically "bison"; not buffalo at all. Buffalo, the town in New York that we shuffle off to, gets its name from a Seneca Indian tribe that once inhabited the area. There's no correlation between the two words, whatsoever.

* Until the 1800s, dental professionals in Europe believed a type of burrowing worm caused tooth decay. ...

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