The ancient Egyptians bought jewelry for their pet crocodiles.
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A monk had once written over a book that contained information about calculus that was written by Archimedes in ancient Greece that could have made us 100 or even 1000 years more mathematically and technologically advanced.
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Cleopatra married two of her brothers.
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Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
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The first bomb dropped on Germany in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin zoo!
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The first telephone book was one page long and had only 50 names in it.
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During World War 1, Harry Houdini took 1 year off performing to help sell war bonds and teach american soldiers how to escape from German handcuffs.
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