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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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    Cleopatra wasn't Egyptian; she was Greek.
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    Henry Ford was Charles Lindbergh's first passenger in the Spirit of St. Louis.
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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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    India invented the Number System. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.
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    The time interval from first sighting of the iceberg that sank the Titanic to impact was a little over 30 seconds.
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    Until President Kennedy was killed, it wasn't a federal crime to assassinate the President.
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    Although Nostradamus died in the middle of 1566, his 1567 almanac was published because he had the foresight to prepare it before his death.
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