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    Until President Kennedy was killed, it wasn't a federal crime to assassinate the President.
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    Knocker-Up
    Knocker-Up
    Until the 1920s, there was a profession called 'knocker-up', which involved going from client to client and tapping on their windows (or banging on their doors) with long sticks until they woke up.
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    Romans used a plant called Silphium as contraception. They had so much sex that they drove it into extinction.
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    Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
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    Beethoven, was told by a music teacher that he had no talent for music. In fact, this teacher once remarked, “As a composer he is hopeless.”
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    Mahatma Gandhi used to travel with his goat so that he could have fresh milk.
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    It is estimated that there is in excess of 3,000,000,000 bibles been sold throughout the world!
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    In 1980, the city of Detroit presented Saddam Hussein with a key to the city.
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