In 1980, the city of Detroit presented Saddam Hussein with a key to the city.
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A singing birthday card has more computing power than the allied forces in 1945.
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In Ancient Egypt, some people paid their taxes in honey.
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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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Cleopatra wasn't Egyptian; she was Greek.
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Approximately 25,000 workers died during the building of the Panama Canal, and approximately 20,000 of them contracted malaria and yellow fever.
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In medieval Italy, if a man was caught kissing a woman in public, he had to marry her whether he liked it or not.
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