Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
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Leonardo Da Vinci made a robotic lion in 1515 that would walk, sway, open its mouth and move its tail - it even had a compartment that opened to present flowers.
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The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.
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No one knows how many people died during the sinking of the Titanic.
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The Nestles haven't run Nestle since 1875.
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The life expectancy in 1900 was just 47 years.
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Al Capone's armored limousine, after being seized by the feds, was later used to protect Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR), 32nd President of the US, after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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Ancient Greeks believed that redheads turned into vampires after they died.
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