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    Knocker-Up
    Knocker-Up
    Until the 1920s, there was a profession called 'knocker-up', which involved going from client to client and tapping on their windows (or banging on their doors) with long sticks until they woke up.
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    In 1897, Bayer, who is the maker of Aspirin, marketed the drug heroin.
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    Al Capone's armored limousine, after being seized by the feds, was later used to protect Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR), 32nd President of the US, after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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    Clocks made before 1660 had only one hand - an hour hand.
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    Early American humans hunted car-size armadillos and used their shells for houses.
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    Leonardo Da Vinci predicted the mass use of solar energy as long ago as 1447.
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    India invented the Number System. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.
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    In Ancient Greece, if a woman watched even one Olympic event, she was executed.
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