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    In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
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    In Ancient Greece, small penises were desirable, and big ones were for ‘old men and barbarians’
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    Moustache Tea Cups
    Moustache Tea Cups
    In the Victorian era, they had special tea cups that protected your moustache from getting dunked in your tea.
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    Just before the US started bombing Baghdad, nearly $1 billion dollars was stolen from the Central Bank of Iraq and is now the largest bank robbery in history.
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    The dildo was invented at least 22,000 years before the wheel.
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    Leonardo Da Vinci loved animals so much that he used to buy caged animals at the market just to set them free.
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    In 1949, an official boxing match between a bear and a man was held. The bear won.
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    '⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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