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    "Yo momma" jokes/insults were invented by Shakespeare.
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    The first bomb dropped by the Allies on berlin in WW2 killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
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    Early American humans hunted car-size armadillos and used their shells for houses.
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    In Ancient Egypt, some people paid their taxes in honey.
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    Because metal was scarce; the Oscars given out during World War II were made of plaster.
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    After Germany surrendered in WW2, people in Moscow partied until the entire city actually ran out of vodka.
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    Derinkuyu Underground City
    Derinkuyu Underground City
    In 1963, a man found a mysterious room behind a wall in his home that lead to a huge underground city that once housed up to 20,000 people, complete with schools, livestock pens, and food stores, dating back over a millennium.
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    Grenades were invented in China over 1,000 years ago.
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