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    During World War 1, starving wolves amassed in such great numbers that Germans and Russians had a temporary cease fire to fight off the wolf attacks.
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    In medieval Italy, if a man was caught kissing a woman in public, he had to marry her whether he liked it or not.
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    The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.
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    In Ancient Greece, small penises were desirable, and big ones were for ‘old men and barbarians’
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    In 1980, the city of Detroit presented Saddam Hussein with a key to the city.
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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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    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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    Contrary to popular belief, the first ironclad warships were built by Korea in the 16th century.
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