February 1865 is the only month in recorded history to not have a full moon.
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The Taj Mahal took 20 years and 20 thousand men to finish!
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To take an oath, ancient Romans put a hand on their testicles
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In 1980, the city of Detroit presented Saddam Hussein with a key to the city.
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The handbook issued to US soldiers in Britain during WW2 included the line "The British don't know how to make a good cup of coffee. You don't know how to make a good cup of tea. It's an even swap."
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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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"Yo momma" jokes/insults were invented by Shakespeare.
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If Earth's history was condensed into twenty-four hours, life would've appeared at around 4am, land plants at 10:24pm, dinosaur extinction at 11:41pm, and human history would’ve began at 11:58:43pm.
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