The Mint once considered producing doughnut-shaped coins!
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No one knows how many people died during the sinking of the Titanic.
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It is estimated that there is in excess of 3,000,000,000 bibles been sold throughout the world!
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English sailors were referred to as "limeys" because sailors added lime juice to their diet to combat scurvy.
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During the Black Plague, it was thought that bad smells were the cause of the plague. "Plague Doctors" therefore wore masks with long beak-like noses stuffed with flowers or smoke to hide the smells.
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The first bomb dropped on Germany in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin zoo!
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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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Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
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