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    In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
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    The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.
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    India invented the Number System. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.
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    The Canadian province of New Brunswick (which was part of the UK at the time) had a bloodless war with the US state of Maine in 1839
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    The U.S. motto, 'In God We Trust', was not adopted as the national slogan until 1956.
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    Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards.
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