"Yo momma" jokes/insults were invented by Shakespeare.
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In the 1830s, a Greek prime minister tried to spread the potato in Greece but people weren't interested so he put armed guards in front of shipments of potatoes so people would think they were important. People then started stealing these potatoes so much that the crop spread to all of Greece.
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India invented the Number System. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.
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There’s a Swedish power metal band called “Sabaton” who teach history through their music, including an album devoted to teaching about World War Two.
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The great wall of China is 1,400 miles long!
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Jericho is the oldest walled city in the world at 9,000 yrs old!
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The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.
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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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