Grenades were invented in China over 1,000 years ago.
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Pineapples were such a status symbol in 18th century England that you could rent one for the evening to take to a party.
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Cleopatra wasn't Egyptian; she was Greek.
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In 1799, a boy found a 17lb. rock in a creek in North Carolina and used it as a doorstop. It was actually gold.
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Nazi leader Adolf Hitler had only one testicle.
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No one knows who designed the first American Flag.
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Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
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