The first telephone book was one page long and had only 50 names in it.
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Pierre Jaquet-Droz, a watchmaker, 240 years ago invented a robot that could write, and the parts could be interchanged to say whatever you want.
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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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There are 92 known cases of nuclear bombs lost at sea.
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In medieval Italy, if a man was caught kissing a woman in public, he had to marry her whether he liked it or not.
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No one knows who designed the first American Flag.
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When the Egyptians destroyed Libya in the 13th century B.C. they took 13,230 penises of the conquered enemies as trophies.
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