Cleopatra married two of her brothers.
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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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Genghis Khan exempted the poor and clergy from taxes, encouraged literacy, and established free religion, leading many peoples to join his empire before they were even conquered.
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English sailors were referred to as "limeys" because sailors added lime juice to their diet to combat scurvy.
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After Germany surrendered in WW2, people in Moscow partied until the entire city actually ran out of vodka.
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In 1982, a high school student from Los Angeles, California unscrambled the Rubik's Cube in 22.95 seconds.
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In Ancient Greece, if a woman watched even one Olympic event, she was executed.
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