Only eight men were killed in the battle of lexington!
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The Grateful Dead were once called 'The Warlocks'.
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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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English sailors were referred to as "limeys" because sailors added lime juice to their diet to combat scurvy.
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During World War 1, Harry Houdini took 1 year off performing to help sell war bonds and teach american soldiers how to escape from German handcuffs.
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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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The first bomb dropped by the Allies on berlin in WW2 killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
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