Top 10 Facts - 19
The car in the foreground on the back of a $10 bill is a 1925 Huptmobile.
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In ancient Egypt, monkeys were trined to carry trays.
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For 3000 years, until 1883, hemp was the world's largest agricultural crop, from which the majority of fabric, soap, paper, medicines, and oils were produced.
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Children grow faster in the springtime.
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It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the honey month, which we know today as the ''honeymoon''.
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