Only eight men were killed in the battle of lexington!
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In 1700s, the deer skin was a common medium of exchange between the trading settlers and the native Red Indians in America. This is how a buck became a slang for a dollar.
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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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France’s King Louis XIV was offered biological weapons by an Italian chemist. He not only refused, but also paid the chemist an annual salary to never reveal the technology to anyone else.
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In 1980, the city of Detroit presented Saddam Hussein with a key to the city.
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The first telephone book was one page long and had only 50 names in it.
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Tablecloths were originally meant to serve as towels with which guests could wipe their hands and faces after dinner.
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The World Trade Center towers used to have two zip codes, 10047-10048, one for each building.
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