After Germany surrendered in WW2, people in Moscow partied until the entire city actually ran out of vodka.
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Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards.
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Approximately 25,000 workers died during the building of the Panama Canal, and approximately 20,000 of them contracted malaria and yellow fever.
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In Ancient Egypt, some people paid their taxes in honey.
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Pierre Jaquet-Droz, a watchmaker, 240 years ago invented a robot that could write, and the parts could be interchanged to say whatever you want.
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The ancient Egyptians thought the function of the brain was to produce snot.
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The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.
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