To take an oath, ancient Romans put a hand on their testicles
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When the Egyptians destroyed Libya in the 13th century B.C. they took 13,230 penises of the conquered enemies as trophies.
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In the 1930's, American track star Jesse Owens used to race against horses and dogs to earn a living.
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In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
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The Titanic is about as long as the Empire State building is tall.
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In the 1830s, a Greek prime minister tried to spread the potato in Greece but people weren't interested so he put armed guards in front of shipments of potatoes so people would think they were important. People then started stealing these potatoes so much that the crop spread to all of Greece.
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The first ever patent in the UK was Aaron Rathbone & Roger Burges, Map makers in 1618!
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Henry Ford was Charles Lindbergh's first passenger in the Spirit of St. Louis.
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