Originally, Du Pont, Inc. was a tiny gun powder mill in New Jersey.
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The Mint once considered producing doughnut-shaped coins!
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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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During the Cold War, the US had planned to detonate a nuclear weapon on the moon.
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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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Picasso’s full name: Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso.
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The time interval from first sighting of the iceberg that sank the Titanic to impact was a little over 30 seconds.
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The Grateful Dead were once called 'The Warlocks'.
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