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    In 1799, a boy found a 17lb. rock in a creek in North Carolina and used it as a doorstop. It was actually gold.
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    The Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers founded in 1744, is the world's oldest golf club!
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    Cleopatra wasn't Egyptian; she was Greek.
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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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    Tsar Bomba
    Tsar Bomba
    The largest nuclear bomb ever built, the Tsar Bomba, caused damage up to approximately 1,000km away.
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    Two dogs were among the Titanic survivors.
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    Knocker-Up
    Knocker-Up
    Until the 1920s, there was a profession called 'knocker-up', which involved going from client to client and tapping on their windows (or banging on their doors) with long sticks until they woke up.
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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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