The Mint once considered producing doughnut-shaped coins!
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"Yo momma" jokes/insults were invented by Shakespeare.
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Pierre Jaquet-Droz, a watchmaker, 240 years ago invented a robot that could write, and the parts could be interchanged to say whatever you want.
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Napoleon Bonaparte thought torture should be abolished because the information obtained from it is worthless.
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The exact cause of death and burial site of Genghis Khan is unknown, because all of the 2000 funeral guests and 800 soldiers were killed in order to preserve the secret.
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The life expectancy in 1900 was just 47 years.
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