Mahatma Gandhi used to travel with his goat so that he could have fresh milk.
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Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
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In the 1830s, a Greek prime minister tried to spread the potato in Greece but people weren't interested so he put armed guards in front of shipments of potatoes so people would think they were important. People then started stealing these potatoes so much that the crop spread to all of Greece.
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In 1799, a boy found a 17lb. rock in a creek in North Carolina and used it as a doorstop. It was actually gold.
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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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The site where the Parthenon was built had to be cleared of hundreds of dinosaur bones (then called giants' bones) before construction could begin.
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