During World War 1, starving wolves amassed in such great numbers that Germans and Russians had a temporary cease fire to fight off the wolf attacks.
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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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"Yo momma" jokes/insults were invented by Shakespeare.
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The great wall of China is 1,400 miles long!
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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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Che Guevara suffered from asthma!
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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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