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    During the 1600's, boys and girls in England wore dresses until they were about seven years old.
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    The first bomb dropped on Germany in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin zoo!
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    Leonardo Da Vinci predicted the mass use of solar energy as long ago as 1447.
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    The flushing toilet was invented in 1596, not by Thomas Crapper as most people think, but by Sir John Harington.
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    To take an oath, ancient Romans put a hand on their testicles
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    Traces of cocaine were found on 99% of UK bank notes in a survey in London in 2000.
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    The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.
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    In medieval Italy, if a man was caught kissing a woman in public, he had to marry her whether he liked it or not.
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