Originally, Du Pont, Inc. was a tiny gun powder mill in New Jersey.
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The first bomb dropped by the Allies on berlin in WW2 killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
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In 1958, a nuclear bomb was lost somewhere along the swampy coast of Georgia. Its whereabouts remain a mystery to this day.
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In 1987 American Airlines saved $40,000 by eliminating one olive from its First Class salads.
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Approximately 25,000 workers died during the building of the Panama Canal, and approximately 20,000 of them contracted malaria and yellow fever.
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A baboon called Jackie became a private in the South African army in World War I.
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The first ever patent in the UK was Aaron Rathbone & Roger Burges, Map makers in 1618!
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The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal.
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