The handbook issued to US soldiers in Britain during WW2 included the line "The British don't know how to make a good cup of coffee. You don't know how to make a good cup of tea. It's an even swap."
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Leonardo Da Vinci loved animals so much that he used to buy caged animals at the market just to set them free.
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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 average life span of a peasant during the medieval ages was 25 years.
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Al Capone's armored limousine, after being seized by the feds, was later used to protect Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR), 32nd President of the US, after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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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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"Yo momma" jokes/insults were invented by Shakespeare.
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The Canadian province of New Brunswick (which was part of the UK at the time) had a bloodless war with the US state of Maine in 1839
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