In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
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The World Trade Center towers used to have two zip codes, 10047-10048, one for each building.
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Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
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No one knows how many people died during the sinking of the Titanic.
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The Canadian province of New Brunswick (which was part of the UK at the time) had a bloodless war with the US state of Maine in 1839
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The site where the Parthenon was built had to be cleared of hundreds of dinosaur bones (then called giants' bones) before construction could begin.
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Clocks made before 1660 had only one hand - an hour hand.
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