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    The Grateful Dead were once called 'The Warlocks'.
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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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    A monk had once written over a book that contained information about calculus that was written by Archimedes in ancient Greece that could have made us 100 or even 1000 years more mathematically and technologically advanced.
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    Cleopatra wasn't Egyptian; she was Greek.
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    Japanese Holdout
    Japanese Holdout
    After World War 2 ended in 1945, a Japanese officer named Hiroo Onoda didn't surrender and continued the war for 29 years because he didn't know that Japan had surrendered and the war was over.
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    There's a bar in Ireland (presently named Sean’s Bar) that was opened in 900AD.
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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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    The average life span of a peasant during the medieval ages was 25 years.
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