After Germany surrendered in WW2, people in Moscow partied until the entire city actually ran out of vodka.
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In the 1830s, a Greek prime minister tried to spread the potato in Greece but people weren't interested so he put armed guards in front of shipments of potatoes so people would think they were important. People then started stealing these potatoes so much that the crop spread to all of Greece.
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Che Guevara suffered from asthma!
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Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
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Grenades were invented in China over 1,000 years ago.
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In ancient Rome it was considered a sign of leadership to be born with a crooked nose!
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