After Germany surrendered in WW2, people in Moscow partied until the entire city actually ran out of vodka.
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Everton FC used to be called St Domingo's FC!
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English sailors were referred to as "limeys" because sailors added lime juice to their diet to combat scurvy.
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India invented the Number System. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.
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A baboon called Jackie became a private in the South African army in World War I.
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France’s King Louis XIV was offered biological weapons by an Italian chemist. He not only refused, but also paid the chemist an annual salary to never reveal the technology to anyone else.
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There's no evidence that pirates made people walk the plank.
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In 1897, Bayer, who is the maker of Aspirin, marketed the drug heroin.
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