Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history: spades - King David, clubs - Alexander the Great, hearts - Charlemagne, and diamonds - Julius Caesar.
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A female photographer in the 50s took tens of thousands of pictures and remained remained unknown until her death. She is now considered one of the most important street photographers ever.
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London's Pall Mall became the first street lit by gaslight in 1807!
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In Ancient Greece, small penises were desirable, and big ones were for ‘old men and barbarians’
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When Charles Darwin first discovered the Galapagos Tortoises, he tried to ride them!
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The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.
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Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards.
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