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According to a 1655 book, a Silesian village was once terrorised by an incredibly smelly vampire, who vomited fire, threw dung at people, came into houses at night and made sounds like a hog. The villagers believed it was the spirit of a deceased man called Johannes Cuntius.

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Ancient Egyptians had a goddess of beer brewery called Ninkasi. According to one version, her name meant ‘lady who fills the mouth’.

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In 1879, ‘Punch’ predicted video calls: In this cartoon, parents ‘set up an electric camera obscura over their bedroom mantel-piece, and gladden their eyes with the sight of their Children at the Antipodes, and converse gaily with them through the wire’. https://t.co/bZz8ESdS1p

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