The Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers founded in 1744, is the world's oldest golf club!
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The first telephone book was one page long and had only 50 names in it.
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Pineapples were such a status symbol in 18th century England that you could rent one for the evening to take to a party.
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Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards.
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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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Kung Fu actually originated in India, but was developed further in China.
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The ancient Egyptians thought the function of the brain was to produce snot.
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