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    There are 92 known cases of nuclear bombs lost at sea.
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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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    Vikings used the skulls of their enemies as drinking vessels.
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    The first ever patent in the UK was Aaron Rathbone & Roger Burges, Map makers in 1618!
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    Two dogs were among the Titanic survivors.
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    The World Trade Center towers used to have two zip codes, 10047-10048, one for each building.
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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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    In 1897, Bayer, who is the maker of Aspirin, marketed the drug heroin.
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