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    The Mint once considered producing doughnut-shaped coins!
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    There's a bar in Ireland (presently named Sean’s Bar) that was opened in 900AD.
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    The site where the Parthenon was built had to be cleared of hundreds of dinosaur bones (then called giants' bones) before construction could begin.
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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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    A singing birthday card has more computing power than the allied forces in 1945.
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    Napoleon Bonaparte thought torture should be abolished because the information obtained from it is worthless.
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    Leonardo Da Vinci predicted the mass use of solar energy as long ago as 1447.
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    Everton FC used to be called St Domingo's FC!
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