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    The Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers founded in 1744, is the world's oldest golf club!
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    A monk had once written over a book that contained information about calculus that was written by Archimedes in ancient Greece that could have made us 100 or even 1000 years more mathematically and technologically advanced.
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    Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
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    Ancient Greeks believed that redheads turned into vampires after they died.
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    A baboon called Jackie became a private in the South African army in World War I.
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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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    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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    The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.
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