During the 1600's, boys and girls in England wore dresses until they were about seven years old.
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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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Clocks made before 1660 had only one hand - an hour hand.
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In ancient Greece, tossing an apple to a girl was a traditional proposal of marriage. Catching it meant that she accepted.
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The handbook issued to US soldiers in Britain during WW2 included the line "The British don't know how to make a good cup of coffee. You don't know how to make a good cup of tea. It's an even swap."
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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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In the 1830s, a Greek prime minister tried to spread the potato in Greece but people weren't interested so he put armed guards in front of shipments of potatoes so people would think they were important. People then started stealing these potatoes so much that the crop spread to all of Greece.
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In 1976 an LA secretary named Jannene Swift officially married a 50 pound rock in a ceremony witnessed by more than 20 people.
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