The Taj Mahal took 20 years and 20 thousand men to finish!
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In 1980, the city of Detroit presented Saddam Hussein with a key to the city.
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The first chocolate eggs were made in Germany in the 19th century and remain one of the most popular Easter candies today.
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Allegedly, Chrysippus, the Greek philosopher, died of laughter after getting his donkey drunk and watching it try to eat figs.
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Ancient Greeks believed that redheads turned into vampires after they died.
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During WW2, captured German officers were sent to Britain as POWs and lived in luxury in Trent Park. This was done to make them feel relaxed. However, they were being listened to by 100 ‘listeners’. They revealed secrets about the holocaust, events in Berlin, Hitler's madness and V2 rocket bases.
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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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Ancient Romans at one time used human urine as an ingredient in their toothpaste.
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