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    Knocker-Up
    Knocker-Up
    Until the 1920s, there was a profession called 'knocker-up', which involved going from client to client and tapping on their windows (or banging on their doors) with long sticks until they woke up.
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    Henry Ford was Charles Lindbergh's first passenger in the Spirit of St. Louis.
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    Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
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    The flushing toilet was invented in 1596, not by Thomas Crapper as most people think, but by Sir John Harington.
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    Traces of cocaine were found on 99% of UK bank notes in a survey in London in 2000.
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    In 1700s, the deer skin was a common medium of exchange between the trading settlers and the native Red Indians in America. This is how a buck became a slang for a dollar.
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    Modern humans first appeared about 200,000 years ago, but record keeping didn't begin until about 6,000 years ago. That means about 97% of human history is lost.
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    February 1865 is the only month in recorded history to not have a full moon.
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