After Germany surrendered in WW2, people in Moscow partied until the entire city actually ran out of vodka.
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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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The oldest glowing lightbulb was first switched on in 1901 and lives in fire stations in Livermore, CA. It is known as the Centennial Light.
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The average life span of a peasant during the medieval ages was 25 years.
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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 Ancient Greece, small penises were desirable, and big ones were for ‘old men and barbarians’
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Traces of cocaine were found on 99% of UK bank notes in a survey in London in 2000.
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