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    The time interval from first sighting of the iceberg that sank the Titanic to impact was a little over 30 seconds.
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    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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    Romans used a plant called Silphium as contraception. They had so much sex that they drove it into extinction.
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    Che Guevara suffered from asthma!
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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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    Leonardo Da Vinci loved animals so much that he used to buy caged animals at the market just to set them free.
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    The site where the Parthenon was built had to be cleared of hundreds of dinosaur bones (then called giants' bones) before construction could begin.
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    Approximately 40% of the U.S. paper currency in circulation was counterfeit by the end of the Civil War.
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