The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.
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Pineapples were such a status symbol in 18th century England that you could rent one for the evening to take to a party.
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The oldest patented company logo is the red triangle of Bass beers!
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During World War 1, starving wolves amassed in such great numbers that Germans and Russians had a temporary cease fire to fight off the wolf attacks.
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The site where the Parthenon was built had to be cleared of hundreds of dinosaur bones (then called giants' bones) before construction could begin.
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The average life span of a peasant during the medieval ages was 25 years.
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Mahatma Gandhi used to travel with his goat so that he could have fresh milk.
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The University of Oxford (teaching since 1096) predates the Aztec empire (1428 - 1521).
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