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    In 1537, England's King Henry VII officially declared February 14th the holiday of St. Valentine's Day.
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    Jericho is the oldest walled city in the world at 9,000 yrs 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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    Che Guevara suffered from asthma!
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    After Germany surrendered in WW2, people in Moscow partied until the entire city actually ran out of vodka.
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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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    Hundreds of years ago, the Aztecs of Mexico and the people of Nicaragua believed gods lived in volcanoes. They would sacrifice beautiful young girls to these powerful gods.
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    In 1999, Pepsi, Inc. paid $0.00 in income tax!
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