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Arthur Rimbaud suddenly abandoned poetry in 1875, and was later known as a weapons merchant in Abyssinia.
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France has been using the German time zone since the German occupation during WWII.
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The famous Hamburger sandwich comes from Hamburg.
The Hot-Dog comes from Frankfurt (name before americanization: Frankfurter)
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Tsutomu Yamaguchi is the only man who survived both atomic bombs (at least the only that was officially recognised)...
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The Eiffel Tower should have been dismantled after the Universal Exposition of 1889 for which it had been built; the Eiffel Tower has especially been saved by telegraphy.
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Iran comes second in number of gender reassignment surgery (first is Thailand).
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During the American Civil War, the general Lee’s Southern troops called themselves “Lee’s Miserables”, as a tribute to Victor Hugo’s book, Les Misérables.
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It’s only in 1990 that the World Health Organization took the decision to withdraw homosexuality from its list of mental diseases.
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Mansuetus and Lynx, Spontex administrators, got married in fall 2007.
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The eradication of cats, due to superstitions and beliefs about witchcraft, allowed the spread of the plague.
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The modern pizza (as we know it nowadays) has been invented in 1889 by Raffaele Esposito.
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