Tablecloths were originally meant to serve as towels with which guests could wipe their hands and faces after dinner.
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There's no evidence that pirates made people walk the plank.
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The Mint once considered producing doughnut-shaped coins!
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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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Napoleon Bonaparte thought torture should be abolished because the information obtained from it is worthless.
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In 1963, the US Military created an artificial ring around Earth, similar to that of the planet Saturn. The ring was made of copper needles and was used for worldwide communications in the case that the Soviets disabled all other methods of communication.
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Traces of cocaine were found on 99% of UK bank notes in a survey in London in 2000.
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