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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There are pictures of Knights fighting Snails in old Medieval manuscripts - and nobody knows why.
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Nazi leader Adolf Hitler had only one testicle.
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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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Traces of cocaine were found on 99% of UK bank notes in a survey in London in 2000.
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"Yo momma" jokes/insults were invented by Shakespeare.
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Beethoven, was told by a music teacher that he had no talent for music. In fact, this teacher once remarked, “As a composer he is hopeless.”
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