Everton FC used to be called St Domingo's FC!
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The Mint once considered producing doughnut-shaped coins!
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A monk had once written over a book that contained information about calculus that was written by Archimedes in ancient Greece that could have made us 100 or even 1000 years more mathematically and technologically advanced.
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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 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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Napoleon had conquered Italy by the time he was twenty-six.
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The University of Oxford (teaching since 1096) predates the Aztec empire (1428 - 1521).
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"Yo momma" jokes/insults were invented by Shakespeare.
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