If a surgeon in Ancient Egypt lost a patient while performing an operation, his hands were cut off.
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Al Capone's armored limousine, after being seized by the feds, was later used to protect Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR), 32nd President of the US, after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
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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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Cleopatra wasn't Egyptian; she was Greek.
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High Heels were originally made for men in the 16th century.
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