After Germany surrendered in WW2, people in Moscow partied until the entire city actually ran out of vodka.
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Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox.
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To take an oath, ancient Romans put a hand on their testicles
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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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Early Romans used to use porcupine quills as toothpicks.
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The native Americans planted three sisters (corn, beans, and squash) together so that they would benefit each other. The corn provides a structure for the beans to climb. The beans provide the nitrogen to the soil, and the squash spreads along the ground preventing weeds.
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Ancient Greeks believed that redheads turned into vampires after they died.
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