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    English sailors were referred to as "limeys" because sailors added lime juice to their diet to combat scurvy.
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    There are pictures of Knights fighting Snails in old Medieval manuscripts - and nobody knows why.
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    Harry S. Truman was the last U.S. President with no college degree.
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    Chinese General With Only 100 Men Made An Army of 150,000 Retreat
    According to the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Shu general Zhuge Liang had to defend a town with a mere 100 troops against an army of 150,000. He hid his men, flung open the gates, and sat on the walls playing a lute. The opposing general of Wei, Sima Yi, certain it was a trap, ordered a retreat.
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    In Ancient Greece, small penises were desirable, and big ones were for ‘old men and barbarians’
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    Cleopatra married two of her brothers.
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    Napoleon had conquered Italy by the time he was twenty-six.
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    During the Black Plague, it was thought that bad smells were the cause of the plague. "Plague Doctors" therefore wore masks with long beak-like noses stuffed with flowers or smoke to hide the smells.
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