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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After Germany surrendered in WW2, people in Moscow partied until the entire city actually ran out of vodka.
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Recently, archaeologists excavating in the old medieval town of Odense in Denmark uncovered 700-year-old barrels of poop - and, to their surprise, they still smelt.
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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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A WW2 observation pilot, bored of not being in combat, decided to strap 6 bazookas to his plane. He destroyed several enemy tanks and vehicles. His name was Lt. Col. Charles Carpenter, aka Bazooka Charlie / The Mad Major.
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Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox.
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Ancient Romans at one time used human urine as an ingredient in their toothpaste.
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