"Yo momma" jokes/insults were invented by Shakespeare.
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Two dogs were among the Titanic survivors.
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To take an oath, ancient Romans put a hand on their testicles
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In the great fire of London, in 1666, half of London was burnt down but only 6 people were injured.
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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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It is estimated that there is in excess of 3,000,000,000 bibles been sold throughout the world!
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Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
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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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