The writer who sold stray dogs as purebreds

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Before writing legendary satire, you must live it. The Czech author made rent by stealing stray mutts, forging completely fake pedigree papers, and selling them to gullible rich people as highly exclusive, purebred hunting hounds.

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Ea-Nasir was a copper merchant in ancient Mesopotamia whose business practices were so notoriously terrible that his angry customers carved their complaints into clay tablets that survived for nearly four thousand years.

Before alarm clocks, people hired human wake-up calls

In 1925, a brilliant con artist managed to do the impossible with the Eiffel Tower. What did he pull off?

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