The ancient Egyptians bought jewelry for their pet crocodiles.
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Originally, Du Pont, Inc. was a tiny gun powder mill in New Jersey.
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Ancient Romans at one time used human urine as an ingredient in their toothpaste.
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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 Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal.
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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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In Ancient Greece, small penises were desirable, and big ones were for ‘old men and barbarians’
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