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    Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history: spades - King David, clubs - Alexander the Great, hearts - Charlemagne, and diamonds - Julius Caesar.
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    Leonardo Da Vinci predicted the mass use of solar energy as long ago as 1447.
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    Jericho is the oldest walled city in the world at 9,000 yrs old!
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    The life expectancy in 1900 was just 47 years.
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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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    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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    Modern humans first appeared about 200,000 years ago, but record keeping didn't begin until about 6,000 years ago. That means about 97% of human history is lost.
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    Mahatma Gandhi used to travel with his goat so that he could have fresh milk.
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