There are pictures of Knights fighting Snails in old Medieval manuscripts - and nobody knows why.
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The Nestles haven't run Nestle since 1875.
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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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The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.
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Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox.
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Two dogs were among the Titanic survivors.
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Pilgrims did not eat with forks. They only used spoons, knives and their fingers.
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The Grateful Dead were once called 'The Warlocks'.
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