If a surgeon in Ancient Egypt lost a patient while performing an operation, his hands were cut off.
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A singing birthday card has more computing power than the allied forces in 1945.
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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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Originally, Du Pont, Inc. was a tiny gun powder mill in New Jersey.
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Mahatma Gandhi used to travel with his goat so that he could have fresh milk.
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In 2011, a couple bought a box of textbooks for $10. Inside, they found a 25-cent bill signed by the president of the Republic of Texas, Sam Houston, and subsequently sold it for $63,250.
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