During World War 1, starving wolves amassed in such great numbers that Germans and Russians had a temporary cease fire to fight off the wolf attacks.
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Cleopatra wasn't Egyptian; she was Greek.
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It is estimated that there is in excess of 3,000,000,000 bibles been sold throughout the world!
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Beethoven, was told by a music teacher that he had no talent for music. In fact, this teacher once remarked, “As a composer he is hopeless.”
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In 1980, the city of Detroit presented Saddam Hussein with a key to the city.
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There's a bar in Ireland (presently named Sean’s Bar) that was opened in 900AD.
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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 Titanic is about as long as the Empire State building is tall.
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