The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.
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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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Two dogs were among the Titanic survivors.
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The Mint once considered producing doughnut-shaped coins!
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In 1700s, the deer skin was a common medium of exchange between the trading settlers and the native Red Indians in America. This is how a buck became a slang for a dollar.
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During World War 1, starving wolves amassed in such great numbers that Germans and Russians had a temporary cease fire to fight off the wolf attacks.
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The average life span of a peasant during the medieval ages was 25 years.
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