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    Moustache Tea Cups
    Moustache Tea Cups
    In the Victorian era, they had special tea cups that protected your moustache from getting dunked in your tea.
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    Candle Clocks
    Candle Clocks
    Before clocks, there were candle clocks that when burned, indicated the passage of periods of time. To set an alarm, you pushed a nail into the desired point and the nail would fall and clank on the metal holder.
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    February 1865 is the only month in recorded history to not have a full moon.
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    London's Pall Mall became the first street lit by gaslight in 1807!
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    During WW2, captured German officers were sent to Britain as POWs and lived in luxury in Trent Park. This was done to make them feel relaxed. However, they were being listened to by 100 ‘listeners’. They revealed secrets about the holocaust, events in Berlin, Hitler's madness and V2 rocket bases.
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    During the Cold War, the US had planned to detonate a nuclear weapon on the moon.
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    The Grateful Dead were once called 'The Warlocks'.
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    Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
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