The Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers founded in 1744, is the world's oldest golf club!
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There was a bear called Wojtek who was adopted by Polish soldiers during WW2. It carried ammunition, wrestled with soldiers, and drank beer.
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Cleopatra married two of her brothers.
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The ancient Egyptians thought the function of the brain was to produce snot.
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In 1799, a boy found a 17lb. rock in a creek in North Carolina and used it as a doorstop. It was actually gold.
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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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After Germany surrendered in WW2, people in Moscow partied until the entire city actually ran out of vodka.
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There are 92 known cases of nuclear bombs lost at sea.
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