In 2011, a couple bought a box of textbooks for $10. Inside, they found a 25-cent bill signed by the president of the Republic of Texas, Sam Houston, and subsequently sold it for $63,250.
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In ancient Rome it was considered a sign of leadership to be born with a crooked nose!
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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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Jericho is the oldest walled city in the world at 9,000 yrs old!
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Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
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There's no evidence that pirates made people walk the plank.
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When the Egyptians destroyed Libya in the 13th century B.C. they took 13,230 penises of the conquered enemies as trophies.
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