In 1980, the city of Detroit presented Saddam Hussein with a key to the city.
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Romans used a plant called Silphium as contraception. They had so much sex that they drove it into extinction.
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Cleopatra wasn't Egyptian; she was Greek.
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When Charles Darwin first discovered the Galapagos Tortoises, he tried to ride them!
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The first ever patent in the UK was Aaron Rathbone & Roger Burges, Map makers in 1618!
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The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.
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The flushing toilet was invented in 1596, not by Thomas Crapper as most people think, but by Sir John Harington.
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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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