Cleopatra wasn't Egyptian; she was Greek.
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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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The Mint once considered producing doughnut-shaped coins!
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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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There are 92 known cases of nuclear bombs lost at sea.
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The first bomb dropped by the Allies on berlin in WW2 killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
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The first telephone book was one page long and had only 50 names in it.
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