During the Cold War, the US had planned to detonate a nuclear weapon on the moon.
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The time interval from first sighting of the iceberg that sank the Titanic to impact was a little over 30 seconds.
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The Mint once considered producing doughnut-shaped coins!
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Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards.
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The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.
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Recently, archaeologists excavating in the old medieval town of Odense in Denmark uncovered 700-year-old barrels of poop - and, to their surprise, they still smelt.
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The U.S. motto, 'In God We Trust', was not adopted as the national slogan until 1956.
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Cleopatra married two of her brothers.
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