The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.
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In 1976 an LA secretary named Jannene Swift officially married a 50 pound rock in a ceremony witnessed by more than 20 people.
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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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In ancient Greece, tossing an apple to a girl was a traditional proposal of marriage. Catching it meant that she accepted.
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In medieval Italy, if a man was caught kissing a woman in public, he had to marry her whether he liked it or not.
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The Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers founded in 1744, is the world's oldest golf club!
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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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