During World War 1, Harry Houdini took 1 year off performing to help sell war bonds and teach american soldiers how to escape from German handcuffs.
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Originally, Du Pont, Inc. was a tiny gun powder mill in New Jersey.
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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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The first telephone book was one page long and had only 50 names in it.
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