The Mint once considered producing doughnut-shaped coins!
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The average life span of a peasant during the medieval ages was 25 years.
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In 1987 American Airlines saved $40,000 by eliminating one olive from its First Class salads.
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The native Americans planted three sisters (corn, beans, and squash) together so that they would benefit each other. The corn provides a structure for the beans to climb. The beans provide the nitrogen to the soil, and the squash spreads along the ground preventing weeds.
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Cleopatra married two of her brothers.
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A monk had once written over a book that contained information about calculus that was written by Archimedes in ancient Greece that could have made us 100 or even 1000 years more mathematically and technologically advanced.
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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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