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    In Ancient Egypt, some people paid their taxes in honey.
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    Che Guevara suffered from asthma!
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    India invented the Number System. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.
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    Al Capone's armored limousine, after being seized by the feds, was later used to protect Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR), 32nd President of the US, after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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    "Yo momma" jokes/insults were invented by Shakespeare.
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    Canada's new flag, with its maple leaf design, was unfurled in 1965 in Ottawa!
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    Until President Kennedy was killed, it wasn't a federal crime to assassinate the President.
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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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