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    In medieval Italy, if a man was caught kissing a woman in public, he had to marry her whether he liked it or not.
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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 Taj Mahal took 20 years and 20 thousand men to finish!
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    Because metal was scarce; the Oscars given out during World War II were made of plaster.
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    Che Guevara suffered from asthma!
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    Cleopatra wasn't Egyptian; she was Greek.
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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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    The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal.
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