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 ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
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The original Cinderella was Egyptian and wore fur slippers.
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India invented the Number System. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.
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In 1958, a nuclear bomb was lost somewhere along the swampy coast of Georgia. Its whereabouts remain a mystery to this day.
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Napoleon had conquered Italy by the time he was twenty-six.
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Traces of cocaine were found on 99% of UK bank notes in a survey in London in 2000.
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The Grateful Dead were once called 'The Warlocks'.
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