In 1999, Pepsi, Inc. paid $0.00 in income tax!
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Approximately 40% of the U.S. paper currency in circulation was counterfeit by the end of the Civil War.
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Romans used a plant called Silphium as contraception. They had so much sex that they drove it into extinction.
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If a surgeon in Ancient Egypt lost a patient while performing an operation, his hands were cut off.
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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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A baboon called Jackie became a private in the South African army in World War I.
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Clocks made before 1660 had only one hand - an hour hand.
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