The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.
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Napoleon Bonaparte thought torture should be abolished because the information obtained from it is worthless.
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The first coast-to-coast telephone line was established in 1914.
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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 Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal.
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The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.
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Approximately 40% of the U.S. paper currency in circulation was counterfeit by the end of the Civil War.
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Tickling was a form of torture used in ancient China on nobility because it left no mark and recovery was quick.
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