During World War 1, starving wolves amassed in such great numbers that Germans and Russians had a temporary cease fire to fight off the wolf attacks.
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Tablecloths were originally meant to serve as towels with which guests could wipe their hands and faces after dinner.
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In ancient Rome it was considered a sign of leadership to be born with a crooked nose!
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Napoleon had conquered Italy by the time he was twenty-six.
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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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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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