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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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    The time interval from first sighting of the iceberg that sank the Titanic to impact was a little over 30 seconds.
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    Harry S. Truman was the last U.S. President with no college degree.
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    Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
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    If Earth's history was condensed into twenty-four hours, life would've appeared at around 4am, land plants at 10:24pm, dinosaur extinction at 11:41pm, and human history would’ve began at 11:58:43pm.
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    In 1897, Bayer, who is the maker of Aspirin, marketed the drug heroin.
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    Queen Elizabeth II served as a mechanic and driver in World War 2.
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    The Titanic is about as long as the Empire State building is tall.
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