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    There are pictures of Knights fighting Snails in old Medieval manuscripts - and nobody knows why.
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    Japanese Holdout
    Japanese Holdout
    After World War 2 ended in 1945, a Japanese officer named Hiroo Onoda didn't surrender and continued the war for 29 years because he didn't know that Japan had surrendered and the war was over.
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    In 1897, Bayer, who is the maker of Aspirin, marketed the drug heroin.
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    Mahatma Gandhi used to travel with his goat so that he could have fresh milk.
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    Ancient Fart Battles
    Ancient Fart Battles
    There are scrolls from the Edo period of Japan that suggest fart battles took place. The drawings show men blasting farts at other men, women, and even a cat.
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    To take an oath, ancient Romans put a hand on their testicles
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    The site where the Parthenon was built had to be cleared of hundreds of dinosaur bones (then called giants' bones) before construction could begin.
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    The first ever patent in the UK was Aaron Rathbone & Roger Burges, Map makers in 1618!
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