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    Nazi leader Adolf Hitler had only one testicle.
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    Genghis Khan exempted the poor and clergy from taxes, encouraged literacy, and established free religion, leading many peoples to join his empire before they were even conquered.
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    The original Cinderella was Egyptian and wore fur slippers.
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    Knocker-Up
    Knocker-Up
    Until the 1920s, there was a profession called 'knocker-up', which involved going from client to client and tapping on their windows (or banging on their doors) with long sticks until they woke up.
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    Clocks made before 1660 had only one hand - an hour hand.
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    No one knows how many people died during the sinking of the Titanic.
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    Early American humans hunted car-size armadillos and used their shells for houses.
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    The first bomb dropped on Germany in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin zoo!
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