Originally, Du Pont, Inc. was a tiny gun powder mill in New Jersey.
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If Earth's history was condensed into twenty-four hours, life would've appeared at around 4am, land plants at 10:24pm, dinosaur extinction at 11:41pm, and human history would’ve began at 11:58:43pm.
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Queen Elizabeth II served as a mechanic and driver in World War 2.
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Cleopatra wasn't Egyptian; she was Greek.
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A WW2 observation pilot, bored of not being in combat, decided to strap 6 bazookas to his plane. He destroyed several enemy tanks and vehicles. His name was Lt. Col. Charles Carpenter, aka Bazooka Charlie / The Mad Major.
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There is a 600 year old 240 paged book called the Voynich Manuscript, that’s written language is still completely unknown today.
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Cleopatra married two of her brothers.
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The last time American Green cards were actually green was 1964.
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