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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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    The U.S. motto, 'In God We Trust', was not adopted as the national slogan until 1956.
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    The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.
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    No one knows how many people died during the sinking of the Titanic.
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    The first ever patent in the UK was Aaron Rathbone & Roger Burges, Map makers in 1618!
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    Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards.
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    The average life span of a peasant during the medieval ages was 25 years.
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    London's Pall Mall became the first street lit by gaslight in 1807!
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