In Ancient Egypt, some people paid their taxes in honey.
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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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During WW2, captured German officers were sent to Britain as POWs and lived in luxury in Trent Park. This was done to make them feel relaxed. However, they were being listened to by 100 ‘listeners’. They revealed secrets about the holocaust, events in Berlin, Hitler's madness and V2 rocket bases.
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A baboon called Jackie became a private in the South African army in World War I.
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A monk had once written over a book that contained information about calculus that was written by Archimedes in ancient Greece that could have made us 100 or even 1000 years more mathematically and technologically advanced.
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Traces of cocaine were found on 99% of UK bank notes in a survey in London in 2000.
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Canada's new flag, with its maple leaf design, was unfurled in 1965 in Ottawa!
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In 1976 an LA secretary named Jannene Swift officially married a 50 pound rock in a ceremony witnessed by more than 20 people.
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