After Germany surrendered in WW2, people in Moscow partied until the entire city actually ran out of vodka.
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In 1542, French aristocrat Marguerite De La Rocque survived being marooned for 2 years alone on a remote island off the coast of Quebec.
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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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The original Cinderella was Egyptian and wore fur slippers.
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Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards.
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The universally popular Hershey bar was used overseas during World War II as currency.
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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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