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    Pierre Jaquet-Droz, a watchmaker, 240 years ago invented a robot that could write, and the parts could be interchanged to say whatever you want.
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    In 1999, Pepsi, Inc. paid $0.00 in income tax!
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    Nazi leader Adolf Hitler had only one testicle.
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    When Charles Darwin first discovered the Galapagos Tortoises, he tried to ride them!
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    There are 92 known cases of nuclear bombs lost at sea.
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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 Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.
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    Derinkuyu Underground City
    Derinkuyu Underground City
    In 1963, a man found a mysterious room behind a wall in his home that lead to a huge underground city that once housed up to 20,000 people, complete with schools, livestock pens, and food stores, dating back over a millennium.
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