Napoleon had conquered Italy by the time he was twenty-six.
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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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The Statue of Liberty was a gift of friendship resulting from the diplomatic relationship between the United States and France.
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Because metal was scarce; the Oscars given out during World War II were made of plaster.
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The Nestles haven't run Nestle since 1875.
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The oldest stone tools found are dated from 2.7 - 2.9 million years ago. The species that made these tools is unknown.
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After Germany surrendered in WW2, people in Moscow partied until the entire city actually ran out of vodka.
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The ancient Egyptians thought the function of the brain was to produce snot.
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