The life expectancy in 1900 was just 47 years.
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Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
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Pilgrims did not eat with forks. They only used spoons, knives and their fingers.
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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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The last time American Green cards were actually green was 1964.
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Allegedly, Chrysippus, the Greek philosopher, died of laughter after getting his donkey drunk and watching it try to eat figs.
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