A B-25 bomber airplane crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building on July 28, 1945.
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In 1700s, the deer skin was a common medium of exchange between the trading settlers and the native Red Indians in America. This is how a buck became a slang for a dollar.
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The handbook issued to US soldiers in Britain during WW2 included the line "The British don't know how to make a good cup of coffee. You don't know how to make a good cup of tea. It's an even swap."
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In the 1830s, a Greek prime minister tried to spread the potato in Greece but people weren't interested so he put armed guards in front of shipments of potatoes so people would think they were important. People then started stealing these potatoes so much that the crop spread to all of Greece.
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There are 92 known cases of nuclear bombs lost at sea.
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The Titanic is about as long as the Empire State building is tall.
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During the Cold War, the US had planned to detonate a nuclear weapon on the moon.
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