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    In Ancient Egypt, some people paid their taxes in honey.
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    India invented the Number System. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.
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    In Ancient Greece, if a woman watched even one Olympic event, she was executed.
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    Japanese Holdout
    Japanese Holdout
    After World War 2 ended in 1945, a Japanese officer named Hiroo Onoda didn't surrender and continued the war for 29 years because he didn't know that Japan had surrendered and the war was over.
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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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    Pineapples were such a status symbol in 18th century England that you could rent one for the evening to take to a party.
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    Tsar Bomba
    Tsar Bomba
    The largest nuclear bomb ever built, the Tsar Bomba, caused damage up to approximately 1,000km away.
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    No one knows how many people died during the sinking of the Titanic.
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