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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"Yo momma" jokes/insults were invented by Shakespeare.
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The flushing toilet was invented in 1596, not by Thomas Crapper as most people think, but by Sir John Harington.
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The great wall of China is 1,400 miles long!
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Approximately 25,000 workers died during the building of the Panama Canal, and approximately 20,000 of them contracted malaria and yellow fever.
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Napoleon Bonaparte thought torture should be abolished because the information obtained from it is worthless.
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There are 92 known cases of nuclear bombs lost at sea.
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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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