There is a 600 year old 240 paged book called the Voynich Manuscript, that’s written language is still completely unknown today.
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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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Ancient Greeks believed that redheads turned into vampires after they died.
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In 1958, a nuclear bomb was lost somewhere along the swampy coast of Georgia. Its whereabouts remain a mystery to this day.
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Queen Elizabeth II served as a mechanic and driver in World War 2.
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Cleopatra married two of her brothers.
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