A female photographer in the 50s took tens of thousands of pictures and remained remained unknown until her death. She is now considered one of the most important street photographers ever.
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The first telephone book was one page long and had only 50 names in it.
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The Grateful Dead were once called 'The Warlocks'.
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The great wall of China is 1,400 miles long!
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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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During World War 1, Harry Houdini took 1 year off performing to help sell war bonds and teach american soldiers how to escape from German handcuffs.
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Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
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