After Germany surrendered in WW2, people in Moscow partied until the entire city actually ran out of vodka.
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Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history: spades - King David, clubs - Alexander the Great, hearts - Charlemagne, and diamonds - Julius Caesar.
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In the great fire of London, in 1666, half of London was burnt down but only 6 people were injured.
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Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox.
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In Ancient Egypt, some people paid their taxes in honey.
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London's Pall Mall became the first street lit by gaslight in 1807!
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There's a bar in Ireland (presently named Sean’s Bar) that was opened in 900AD.
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In the 1830s, a Greek prime minister tried to spread the potato in Greece but people weren't interested so he put armed guards in front of shipments of potatoes so people would think they were important. People then started stealing these potatoes so much that the crop spread to all of Greece.
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