Tablecloths were originally meant to serve as towels with which guests could wipe their hands and faces after dinner.
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During the Gold Rush in 1849, some people paid as much as $100 for a glass of water!
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The original Cinderella was Egyptian and wore fur slippers.
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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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To take an oath, ancient Romans put a hand on their testicles
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In 1980, the city of Detroit presented Saddam Hussein with a key to the city.
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Clocks made before 1660 had only one hand - an hour hand.
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The Canadian province of New Brunswick (which was part of the UK at the time) had a bloodless war with the US state of Maine in 1839
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