After Germany surrendered in WW2, people in Moscow partied until the entire city actually ran out of vodka.
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Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards.
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In 1980, the city of Detroit presented Saddam Hussein with a key to the city.
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The first ever patent in the UK was Aaron Rathbone & Roger Burges, Map makers in 1618!
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Approximately 40% of the U.S. paper currency in circulation was counterfeit by the end of the Civil War.
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Traces of cocaine were found on 99% of UK bank notes in a survey in London in 2000.
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The Titanic is about as long as the Empire State building is tall.
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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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