Only eight men were killed in the battle of lexington!
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India invented the Number System. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.
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In ancient Greece, tossing an apple to a girl was a traditional proposal of marriage. Catching it meant that she accepted.
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Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
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In the 1930's, American track star Jesse Owens used to race against horses and dogs to earn a living.
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During the 1600's, boys and girls in England wore dresses until they were about seven years old.
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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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The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.
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