Grenades were invented in China over 1,000 years ago.
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In 1976 an LA secretary named Jannene Swift officially married a 50 pound rock in a ceremony witnessed by more than 20 people.
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Canada's new flag, with its maple leaf design, was unfurled in 1965 in Ottawa!
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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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The University of Oxford (teaching since 1096) predates the Aztec empire (1428 - 1521).
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The first coast-to-coast telephone line was established in 1914.
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In 2011, a couple bought a box of textbooks for $10. Inside, they found a 25-cent bill signed by the president of the Republic of Texas, Sam Houston, and subsequently sold it for $63,250.
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