In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
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Queen Elizabeth II served as a mechanic and driver in World War 2.
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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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In Ancient Greece, if a woman watched even one Olympic event, she was executed.
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Recently, archaeologists excavating in the old medieval town of Odense in Denmark uncovered 700-year-old barrels of poop - and, to their surprise, they still smelt.
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In Ancient Egypt, some people paid their taxes in honey.
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To take an oath, ancient Romans put a hand on their testicles
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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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