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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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    Al Capone's armored limousine, after being seized by the feds, was later used to protect Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR), 32nd President of the US, after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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    Roman Farting Edict
    Roman Farting Edict
    After hearing of a man who almost died from holding in farts whilst dining, Emperor Claudius is said to have proclaimed an edict that allowed Romans to fart at the dinner table.
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    The U.S. motto, 'In God We Trust', was not adopted as the national slogan until 1956.
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    Traces of cocaine were found on 99% of UK bank notes in a survey in London in 2000.
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    In 1897, Bayer, who is the maker of Aspirin, marketed the drug heroin.
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    Originally, Du Pont, Inc. was a tiny gun powder mill in New Jersey.
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    A monk had once written over a book that contained information about calculus that was written by Archimedes in ancient Greece that could have made us 100 or even 1000 years more mathematically and technologically advanced.
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