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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Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
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In Ancient Egypt, some people paid their taxes in honey.
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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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Mahatma Gandhi used to travel with his goat so that he could have fresh milk.
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The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.
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In Ancient Greece, small penises were desirable, and big ones were for ‘old men and barbarians’
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In 1897, Bayer, who is the maker of Aspirin, marketed the drug heroin.
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