Ancient Greeks believed that redheads turned into vampires after they died.
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The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.
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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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Although Nostradamus died in the middle of 1566, his 1567 almanac was published because he had the foresight to prepare it before his death.
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Cleopatra wasn't Egyptian; she was Greek.
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In medieval Italy, if a man was caught kissing a woman in public, he had to marry her whether he liked it or not.
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In 1976 an LA secretary named Jannene Swift officially married a 50 pound rock in a ceremony witnessed by more than 20 people.
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