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    In 1982, a high school student from Los Angeles, California unscrambled the Rubik's Cube in 22.95 seconds.
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    During World War 1, starving wolves amassed in such great numbers that Germans and Russians had a temporary cease fire to fight off the wolf attacks.
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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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    Ancient Romans at one time used human urine as an ingredient in their toothpaste.
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    Romans used a plant called Silphium as contraception. They had so much sex that they drove it into extinction.
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    Because metal was scarce; the Oscars given out during World War II were made of plaster.
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    The average life span of a peasant during the medieval ages was 25 years.
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    A B-25 bomber airplane crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building on July 28, 1945.
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