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    Mahatma Gandhi used to travel with his goat so that he could have fresh milk.
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    The original Cinderella was Egyptian and wore fur slippers.
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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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    Leonardo Da Vinci predicted the mass use of solar energy as long ago as 1447.
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    In 1980, the city of Detroit presented Saddam Hussein with a key to the city.
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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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    Mozart
    Mozart
    Mozart composed a song titled "Leck mich im Arsch", which translates to "Lick me in the arse".
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    Approximately 25,000 workers died during the building of the Panama Canal, and approximately 20,000 of them contracted malaria and yellow fever.
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