In Ancient Egypt, some people paid their taxes in honey.
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No one knows how many people died during the sinking of the Titanic.
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February 1865 is the only month in recorded history to not have a full moon.
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France’s King Louis XIV was offered biological weapons by an Italian chemist. He not only refused, but also paid the chemist an annual salary to never reveal the technology to anyone else.
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Pilgrims did not eat with forks. They only used spoons, knives and their fingers.
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The first bomb dropped by the Allies on berlin in WW2 killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
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Tickling was a form of torture used in ancient China on nobility because it left no mark and recovery was quick.
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Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
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