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    Tablecloths were originally meant to serve as towels with which guests could wipe their hands and faces after dinner.
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    No one knows how many people died during the sinking of the Titanic.
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    Early Romans used to use porcupine quills as toothpicks.
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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 great wall of China is 1,400 miles long!
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    Winston Churchill's Letter of Apology for Escaping from Prison
    Before escaping prison, Winston Churchill left a letter of apology on his bed. The letter began: "I have the honour to inform you that as I do not consider that your Government have any right to detain me as a military prisoner, I have decided to escape from your custody."
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    If a surgeon in Ancient Egypt lost a patient while performing an operation, his hands were cut off.
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    In ancient Rome it was considered a sign of leadership to be born with a crooked nose!
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