The universally popular Hershey bar was used overseas during World War II as currency.
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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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Tickling was a form of torture used in ancient China on nobility because it left no mark and recovery was quick.
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In Ancient Greece, small penises were desirable, and big ones were for ‘old men and barbarians’
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The first chocolate eggs were made in Germany in the 19th century and remain one of the most popular Easter candies today.
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The great wall of China is 1,400 miles long!
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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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