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    During World War 1, Harry Houdini took 1 year off performing to help sell war bonds and teach american soldiers how to escape from German handcuffs.
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    Picasso’s full name: Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso.
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    In 1799, a boy found a 17lb. rock in a creek in North Carolina and used it as a doorstop. It was actually gold.
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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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    The U.S. motto, 'In God We Trust', was not adopted as the national slogan until 1956.
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    The first ever patent in the UK was Aaron Rathbone & Roger Burges, Map makers in 1618!
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    India invented the Number System. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.
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    Harry S. Truman was the last U.S. President with no college degree.
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