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    Cleopatra married two of her brothers.
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    High Heels were originally made for men in the 16th century.
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    Clocks made before 1660 had only one hand - an hour hand.
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    Genghis Khan exempted the poor and clergy from taxes, encouraged literacy, and established free religion, leading many peoples to join his empire before they were even conquered.
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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 is about as long as the Empire State building is tall.
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    Jericho is the oldest walled city in the world at 9,000 yrs old!
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    Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
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