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A genetic study of people from Iceland found a number of them had a mutation predominantly found among Native Americans. It has theorised that this could be because of American women breeding with Viking men, during Norse exploration of America in the 11th century AD.

When the Norse vikings sailed for America in the 11th century, they fully expected (and hoped) to find a race of monsters to fight. Instead, they found the indigenous peoples. Disappointed at finding no real monsters, the Norse (known for being tall) called them Skræling, or pygmies.

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  1. Between the 11th and 19th centuries, Buddhist monks in northern Japan practiced a kind of meditation called Sokushinbutsu, in which they would mummify themselves alive by slowly weaning themselves off food and water before eventually starving to death

  2. Ukkusiksalik National Park is uninhabited now, but the Inuit lived there from 11th century to the 1960s. Remains of fox traps, tent rings, and food caches have been discovered in the area. Usually, the park can only be visited during a few summer weeks

  3. Galen of Pergamon was the doctor of emperors and gladiators. One of his many works, "On the Mixtures and Powers of Simple Drugs," the most complete surviving version of the translated manuscript was erased and written over with hymns in the 11th century. Researchers are using X-rays to read it.

  4. Adrian Newey, the chief technical officer of Red Bull Racing, was expelled from Repton School after he maxed out an audio mixer during a concert and shattered the building's 11th century stained glass windows

  5. Ireland was one of the earliest countries to adopt a system of hereditary surnames (11th century)

  6. An 11th-century North African merchant who fell ill in Italy was shocked by the state of local medicine. He returned to Italy three years later with a bunch of Arabic medical texts and spent the rest of his life translating them to Latin. They were used as textbooks in Europe for 600 years.

  7. The White Sea was known to exist as far back as the 11th century by the Novgorod people who recognized its coastal forest and navigation importance.

  8. About El Cid, an 11th-century Spanish nobleman whose dead body was supposedly strapped on a horse and sent into battle to inspire his troops

  9. In the 11th century, Russian Prince Vladimir chose Christianity over Islam as the state religion because of Islam's prohibition of alcohol. [2:18]

  10. It is believed that Hawaii was inhabited by Polynesian settlers as far back as 300 CE. Later settlers included those from Bora Bora and Raiatea in the 11th century.

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Cluny Abbey was founded by Benedictine monks. It wasn"t until the 11th century that women were admitted to the order.

The Knights Hospitaller, founded in the 11th century, still exists today as a sovereign order which enjoys diplomatic relations with over 100 states and issues its own passports, license plates, stamps and coins. - source

In the early 11th century, the Danish vikings were so intimidating that the English paid enormous amounts of silver, know as "Danegeld", in order to not be ravaged and attacked. - source

Genetic and linguistic evidence suggests Romani or Roma people originated in northwest regions of Indian subcontinent and left in 11th century to settle in Europe

William the Conqueror outlawed capital punishment in England in the 11th century. Instead of execution, William decreed that criminals would be blinded and castrated. - source

Although clasps, buckles, and belts were a thing, buttons were non-existent in 11th century England.

Paper money was invented by the Chinese in the 11th Century

Britain had their first queen regant in the 11th century BC after she defeated her husband in battle, then drowned his mistress and daughter. She ruled peacefully for the next 15 years.

Iceland has its own name for Istanbul, which goes back to the time of the 11th-century Viking raids on the Black Sea, when they referred to it simply as the “Great City”.

There is an autonomous region in Greece called Mount Athos, where women are forbidden to enter since the 11th century.

The country of Zimbabwe takes its name from Great Zimbabwe, a stone city that was constructed during the 11th century

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It was a used a training grounds for horses by the Mongolians in the 11th century. Later it was used as a prison, as well as a fort to protect against Japanese pirates.

An 11th century monk named Guido of Arezzo invented the modern system of musical notation that we use today. He also invented an early form of the do-re-mi mnemonic called "ut–re–mi–fa–so–la."

Johnny Cash was primarily of English and Scottish descent. As an adult he traced his surname to 11th-century Fife, after meeting with the then-laird of Falkland, Major Michael Crichton-Stuart. Cash Loch and other locations in Fife bear the name of his family.

The 11th-century Danish king Sweyn II had several of his guests murdered in church after they allegedly mocked him. He was briefly excommunicated as a result.

The Bridge on the River Kwai' is on American Film Institute's list of best American films ever made and also is the 11th greatest British film of the 20th Century according to the British Film Institute.

Hemachandra, a jain monk in 11th century Gujarat (India), discovered an interesting mathematical pattern while studying poetry and music. It was presented around 1150, about fifty years before Fibonacci (1202)

The most extensive urban complex of the preindustrial world was the city of Angkor in Cambodia, capital of the Khmer Empire (peak: 11th to 13th century).

The name 'Greenland' comes from Erik the Red, an Icelandic man who sailed to the New World in the 11th century after being exiled for manslaughter; he chose the name to attract potential colonists, saying "that people would be more eager to go there because the land had a good name"

About Kirkjubøargarđur, Faroe Islands. One of the oldest still inhabited wooden houses in the world, with the oldest part constructed in the 11th century. Legends tells that it's build with driftwood from Norway as there's no forests on the Faroe Islands.

Beijing's first walled city existed from the 11th century BC to the 7th century BC. It was a city-state called Ji.

China had already developed advanced technologies to extract and use coal in the 11th century.

The measles didn't evolve into a distinct disease until the 11th or 12th century

Hashshashins are first known Assassins founded by Hassan-i Sabbah in 11th century Persia.

In the 11th century, King Cnut the Great ruled over what is now known as the North Sea Empire, which comprised of England, Denmark, and Norway. Cnut also vassalized Scotland and Wales, as well as parts of Ireland and Sweden.

An 11th Century Syrian atheist poet/philosopher inspired Dante's Divine Comedy and he was held in such high regard in the Islamic world that he was invited the al-Mansour Mosque in Baghdad to read poetry.

In the 11th century, Eilmer of Malmesbury, an English Benedictine monk, tried to fly using wings. He traveled over 200 metres (656 ft) before falling and breaking both his legs, which rendered him lame for the rest of his life.

The practice of self-mummification, practiced by Buddhist monks from the 11th-19th centuries.

Gundulf, a Norman monk who built castles for King William I in 11th century England. Including two towers, The White Tower of the Tower of London and Colchester Castle.

Tilda Swinton's family is one of three that can trace it's land ownership back to the 11th century

Women in the 11th century were instructed to wash their mouths after dinner with very good wine, in order to improve dental hygiene

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