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    The universally popular Hershey bar was used overseas during World War II as currency.
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    Tablecloths were originally meant to serve as towels with which guests could wipe their hands and faces after dinner.
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    The oldest patented company logo is the red triangle of Bass beers!
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    There are 92 known cases of nuclear bombs lost at sea.
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    The Statue of Liberty was a gift of friendship resulting from the diplomatic relationship between the United States and France.
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    Knocker-Up
    Knocker-Up
    Until the 1920s, there was a profession called 'knocker-up', which involved going from client to client and tapping on their windows (or banging on their doors) with long sticks until they woke up.
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    In the 1830s, a Greek prime minister tried to spread the potato in Greece but people weren't interested so he put armed guards in front of shipments of potatoes so people would think they were important. People then started stealing these potatoes so much that the crop spread to all of Greece.
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    A B-25 bomber airplane crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building on July 28, 1945.
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