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    In medieval Italy, if a man was caught kissing a woman in public, he had to marry her whether he liked it or not.
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    February 1865 is the only month in recorded history to not have a full moon.
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    Until President Kennedy was killed, it wasn't a federal crime to assassinate the President.
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    Ancient Romans at one time used human urine as an ingredient in their toothpaste.
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    Napoleon had conquered Italy by the time he was twenty-six.
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    Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
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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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    If a surgeon in Ancient Egypt lost a patient while performing an operation, his hands were cut off.
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