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| When George I became King of England in 1714, his wife did not become Queen. He placed her under house arrest for 32 years. |
| In Ancient Peru, when a woman found an 'ugly' potato, it was the custom for her to push it into the face of the nearest man. |
| King George III was declared violently insane in 1811, 9 years before he died. |
| Coffee is the second largest item of international commerce in the world. The largest is petrol. |
| In 1647 the English Parliament abolished Christmas. |
| Pogonophobia is the fear of beards. |
| The Nobel Prize resulted form a late change in the will of Alfred Nobel, who did not want to be remembered after his death as a propagator of violence - he invented dynamite. |
| Ancient drinkers warded off the devil by clinking their cups. |
| During the eighteenth century, laws had to be brought in to curb the seemingly insatiable appetite for gin amongst the poor. Their annual intake was as much as five million gallons. |
| Sliced bread was patented by a jeweller, Otto Rohwedder, in 1928. He had been working on it for 16 years, having started in 1912. |
| China banned the pigtail in 1911 as it was seen as a symbol of feudalism. |
| The Toltecs, Seventh-century native Mexicans, went into battle with wooden swords so as not to kill their enemies. |
| Because they had no proper rubbish disposal system, the streets of ancient Mesopotamia became literally knee-deep in rubbish. |
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