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    In 1700s, the deer skin was a common medium of exchange between the trading settlers and the native Red Indians in America. This is how a buck became a slang for a dollar.
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    Moustache Tea Cups
    Moustache Tea Cups
    In the Victorian era, they had special tea cups that protected your moustache from getting dunked in your tea.
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    There is a 600 year old 240 paged book called the Voynich Manuscript, that’s written language is still completely unknown today.
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    The University of Oxford (teaching since 1096) predates the Aztec empire (1428 - 1521).
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    Alexander Selkirk
    Alexander Selkirk
    Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish sailor, was left stranded on a deserted island in 1704, but survived for over 4 years, partly by using feral cats to protect him from ravenous rats that attacked during the night.
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    Picasso’s full name: Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso.
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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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    Approximately 40% of the U.S. paper currency in circulation was counterfeit by the end of the Civil War.
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