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    The Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers founded in 1744, is the world's oldest golf club!
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    The World Trade Center towers used to have two zip codes, 10047-10048, one for each building.
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    In medieval Italy, if a man was caught kissing a woman in public, he had to marry her whether he liked it or not.
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    Leonardo Da Vinci predicted the mass use of solar energy as long ago as 1447.
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    Pierre Jaquet-Droz, a watchmaker, 240 years ago invented a robot that could write, and the parts could be interchanged to say whatever you want.
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    Knocker-Up
    Knocker-Up
    Until the 1920s, there was a profession called 'knocker-up', which involved going from client to client and tapping on their windows (or banging on their doors) with long sticks until they woke up.
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    The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal.
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    The oldest stone tools found are dated from 2.7 - 2.9 million years ago. The species that made these tools is unknown.
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