The great wall of China is 1,400 miles long!
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In the 1830s, a Greek prime minister tried to spread the potato in Greece but people weren't interested so he put armed guards in front of shipments of potatoes so people would think they were important. People then started stealing these potatoes so much that the crop spread to all of Greece.
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A singing birthday card has more computing power than the allied forces in 1945.
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Because metal was scarce; the Oscars given out during World War II were made of plaster.
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"Yo momma" jokes/insults were invented by Shakespeare.
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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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Although Nostradamus died in the middle of 1566, his 1567 almanac was published because he had the foresight to prepare it before his death.
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