In 2011, a couple bought a box of textbooks for $10. Inside, they found a 25-cent bill signed by the president of the Republic of Texas, Sam Houston, and subsequently sold it for $63,250.
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The first bomb dropped on Germany in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin zoo!
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The Statue of Liberty was a gift of friendship resulting from the diplomatic relationship between the United States and France.
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In 1999, Pepsi, Inc. paid $0.00 in income tax!
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The Canadian province of New Brunswick (which was part of the UK at the time) had a bloodless war with the US state of Maine in 1839
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The first telephone book was one page long and had only 50 names in it.
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Early American humans hunted car-size armadillos and used their shells for houses.
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