The Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers founded in 1744, is the world's oldest golf club!
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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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Two dogs were among the Titanic survivors.
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When Charles Darwin first discovered the Galapagos Tortoises, he tried to ride them!
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A WW2 observation pilot, bored of not being in combat, decided to strap 6 bazookas to his plane. He destroyed several enemy tanks and vehicles. His name was Lt. Col. Charles Carpenter, aka Bazooka Charlie / The Mad Major.
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Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
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During the Black Plague, it was thought that bad smells were the cause of the plague. "Plague Doctors" therefore wore masks with long beak-like noses stuffed with flowers or smoke to hide the smells.
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The life expectancy in 1900 was just 47 years.
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