The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.
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London's Pall Mall became the first street lit by gaslight in 1807!
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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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Two dogs were among the Titanic survivors.
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In 1799, a boy found a 17lb. rock in a creek in North Carolina and used it as a doorstop. It was actually gold.
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Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
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During World War 1, starving wolves amassed in such great numbers that Germans and Russians had a temporary cease fire to fight off the wolf attacks.
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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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