The U.S. motto, 'In God We Trust', was not adopted as the national slogan until 1956.
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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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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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Napoleon had conquered Italy by the time he was twenty-six.
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Originally, Du Pont, Inc. was a tiny gun powder mill in New Jersey.
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If a surgeon in Ancient Egypt lost a patient while performing an operation, his hands were cut off.
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Vikings used the skulls of their enemies as drinking vessels.
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