The Mint once considered producing doughnut-shaped coins!
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Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history: spades - King David, clubs - Alexander the Great, hearts - Charlemagne, and diamonds - Julius Caesar.
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In Ancient Greece, if a woman watched even one Olympic event, she was executed.
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Recently, archaeologists excavating in the old medieval town of Odense in Denmark uncovered 700-year-old barrels of poop - and, to their surprise, they still smelt.
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Clocks made before 1660 had only one hand - an hour hand.
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Ancient Greeks believed that redheads turned into vampires after they died.
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The Canadian province of New Brunswick (which was part of the UK at the time) had a bloodless war with the US state of Maine in 1839
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