Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history: spades - King David, clubs - Alexander the Great, hearts - Charlemagne, and diamonds - Julius Caesar.
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In 1980, the city of Detroit presented Saddam Hussein with a key to the city.
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Jericho is the oldest walled city in the world at 9,000 yrs old!
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In 1799, a boy found a 17lb. rock in a creek in North Carolina and used it as a doorstop. It was actually gold.
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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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The first telephone book was one page long and had only 50 names in it.
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In 1897, Bayer, who is the maker of Aspirin, marketed the drug heroin.
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Cleopatra wasn't Egyptian; she was Greek.
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