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| For a very brief time in 1964, it seemed that the biggest challenger to the Beatles' phenomenon was the Dave Clark Five. |
| Ancient Egyptians shaved off their eyebrows to mourn the death of their cats. |
| Florida was a loyal British colony during the American Revolution. |
| Black death came to Europe when Mongols threw corpses into a city occupied by Italians that they wanted to get rid of. |
| Pennsylvania used to be part of Connecticut. |
| In Queen Victoria's time it was a crime to be a male homosexual. It was not a crime for women because Queen Victoria said "women would never do such a thing". |
| From 1942 until the end of World War II, Oscars were made out of plaster to conserve metal. After the war, the winners received "real" replacement statues. |
| The X's that people sometimes put at the end of letters or notes to mean a kiss, actually started back in the 1000's when Lords would sign their names at the end of documents to other important people. It was originally a cross that they would kiss after signing to signify that they were faithful to God and their King. Over the years though, it slanted into the X. |
| In ancient Rome it was considered a sign of leadership to be born with a crooked nose. |
| During the time of Peter the Great, any Russian man who had a beard was required to pay a special tax. |
| Clocks made before 1687 had only one hand, an hour hand. |
| In 1221 Genghis Khan killed 1,748,000 people at Nishapur in one hour. |
| In medieval Thailand, they had moveable type printing presses. The type was made from baked oxen dung. |
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