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Telephone inventor Alexander Graham Bell could never call his wife or mother because they were both...
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In order to Westernize his country, Peter the Great of Russia enforced a tax on men who grew...
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The words to “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” were written by Jack Norworth, despite the fact that he had never seen...
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Roman Emperor Caligula was thought to be insane. Rumors of his condition were fueled when he attempted to promote his _
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Julius Caesar was once captured by pirates. When the pirates announced the ransom for his release, he was insulted by the amount because it was...
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Besides inspiring the Teddy Bear, Theodore Roosevelt inadvertently came up this famous Maxwell House coffee slogan.
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Confederate General “Stonewall” Jackson had a number of eccentricities. One of them was his refusal to eat pepper because it made his left leg...
ache
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According to legend, in order to convince King John not to build the king’s highway through their village, all the people of Gotham, England pretended to be...
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Queen Christina of Sweden had a phobia of fleas. She had a miniture _
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