In 1537, England's King Henry VII officially declared February 14th the holiday of St. Valentine's Day.
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London's Pall Mall became the first street lit by gaslight in 1807!
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Ancient Greeks believed that redheads turned into vampires after they died.
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The first coast-to-coast telephone line was established in 1914.
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To take an oath, ancient Romans put a hand on their testicles
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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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In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
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