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    There is a 600 year old 240 paged book called the Voynich Manuscript, that’s written language is still completely unknown today.
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    During the 1600's, boys and girls in England wore dresses until they were about seven years old.
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    France’s King Louis XIV was offered biological weapons by an Italian chemist. He not only refused, but also paid the chemist an annual salary to never reveal the technology to anyone else.
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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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    Approximately 40% of the U.S. paper currency in circulation was counterfeit by the end of the Civil War.
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    There's no evidence that pirates made people walk the plank.
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    Vikings used the skulls of their enemies as drinking vessels.
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    Because metal was scarce; the Oscars given out during World War II were made of plaster.
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