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    The Taj Mahal took 20 years and 20 thousand men to finish!
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    No one knows who designed the first American Flag.
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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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    Moustache Tea Cups
    Moustache Tea Cups
    In the Victorian era, they had special tea cups that protected your moustache from getting dunked in your tea.
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    The flushing toilet was invented in 1596, not by Thomas Crapper as most people think, but by Sir John Harington.
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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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    To take an oath, ancient Romans put a hand on their testicles
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    Although Nostradamus died in the middle of 1566, his 1567 almanac was published because he had the foresight to prepare it before his death.
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