A B-25 bomber airplane crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building on July 28, 1945.
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In 1976 an LA secretary named Jannene Swift officially married a 50 pound rock in a ceremony witnessed by more than 20 people.
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Clocks made before 1660 had only one hand - an hour hand.
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Genghis Khan exempted the poor and clergy from taxes, encouraged literacy, and established free religion, leading many peoples to join his empire before they were even conquered.
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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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London's Pall Mall became the first street lit by gaslight in 1807!
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The first ever patent in the UK was Aaron Rathbone & Roger Burges, Map makers in 1618!
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Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
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