In 1980, the city of Detroit presented Saddam Hussein with a key to the city.
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There are 92 known cases of nuclear bombs lost at sea.
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In medieval Italy, if a man was caught kissing a woman in public, he had to marry her whether he liked it or not.
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Pierre Jaquet-Droz, a watchmaker, 240 years ago invented a robot that could write, and the parts could be interchanged to say whatever you want.
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After Germany surrendered in WW2, people in Moscow partied until the entire city actually ran out of vodka.
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The native Americans planted three sisters (corn, beans, and squash) together so that they would benefit each other. The corn provides a structure for the beans to climb. The beans provide the nitrogen to the soil, and the squash spreads along the ground preventing weeds.
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Henry Ford was Charles Lindbergh's first passenger in the Spirit of St. Louis.
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The ancient Egyptians thought the function of the brain was to produce snot.
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