In Ancient Greece, if a woman watched even one Olympic event, she was executed.
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The Canadian province of New Brunswick (which was part of the UK at the time) had a bloodless war with the US state of Maine in 1839
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The Mint once considered producing doughnut-shaped coins!
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India invented the Number System. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.
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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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Cleopatra wasn't Egyptian; she was Greek.
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During the Gold Rush in 1849, some people paid as much as $100 for a glass of water!
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