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Rimbaud warrior!

Arthur Rimbaud suddenly abandoned poetry in 1875, and was later known as a weapons merchant in Abyssinia.

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German time

France has been using the German time zone since the German occupation during WWII.

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Super Size Mich

The famous Hamburger sandwich comes from Hamburg.
The Hot-Dog comes from Frankfurt (name before americanization: Frankfurter)

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Tsutomu, the survivor

Tsutomu Yamaguchi is the only man who survived both atomic bombs (at least the only that was officially recognised)...

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Changing

Bolivian government changed 188 times in 167 years.

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Magnetism

The first magnetic audio recording dates from 1898.

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Eiffel Tower

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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Persepenis

Iran comes second in number of gender reassignment surgery (first is Thailand).

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Lee's Miserables

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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Out of the box

The well-known Pandora's box is actually a jar.

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Coming out

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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And they lived happily

Mansuetus and Lynx, Spontex administrators, got married in fall 2007.

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Marlbo-bro

Marlboro cigarettes were originally designed for a ladies' use.

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A plague of rats

The eradication of cats, due to superstitions and beliefs about witchcraft, allowed the spread of the plague.

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You said Pizza ?

The modern pizza (as we know it nowadays) has been invented in 1889 by Raffaele Esposito.

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