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    Ancient Greeks believed that redheads turned into vampires after they died.
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    During the Cold War, the US had planned to detonate a nuclear weapon on the moon.
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    During the Gold Rush in 1849, some people paid as much as $100 for a glass of water!
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    After Germany surrendered in WW2, people in Moscow partied until the entire city actually ran out of vodka.
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    Knocker-Up
    Knocker-Up
    Until the 1920s, there was a profession called 'knocker-up', which involved going from client to client and tapping on their windows (or banging on their doors) with long sticks until they woke up.
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    At age 18, the Queen of England was a mechanic for the British Military.
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    In Ancient Greece, if a woman watched even one Olympic event, she was executed.
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    Canada's new flag, with its maple leaf design, was unfurled in 1965 in Ottawa!
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