Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
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Originally, Du Pont, Inc. was a tiny gun powder mill in New Jersey.
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The first bomb dropped on Germany in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin zoo!
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After Germany surrendered in WW2, people in Moscow partied until the entire city actually ran out of vodka.
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Clocks made before 1660 had only one hand - an hour hand.
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Canada's new flag, with its maple leaf design, was unfurled in 1965 in Ottawa!
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Leonardo Da Vinci loved animals so much that he used to buy caged animals at the market just to set them free.
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