English sailors were referred to as "limeys" because sailors added lime juice to their diet to combat scurvy.
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Che Guevara suffered from asthma!
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Cleopatra wasn't Egyptian; she was Greek.
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Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox.
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The World Trade Center towers used to have two zip codes, 10047-10048, one for each building.
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France’s King Louis XIV was offered biological weapons by an Italian chemist. He not only refused, but also paid the chemist an annual salary to never reveal the technology to anyone else.
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Cleopatra married two of her brothers.
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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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