There are pictures of Knights fighting Snails in old Medieval manuscripts - and nobody knows why.
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After Germany surrendered in WW2, people in Moscow partied until the entire city actually ran out of vodka.
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During World War II, Uncle Ben's was the exclusive supplier of rice to the U.S. Armed Forces.
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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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If a surgeon in Ancient Egypt lost a patient while performing an operation, his hands were cut off.
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The universally popular Hershey bar was used overseas during World War II as currency.
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