Originally, Du Pont, Inc. was a tiny gun powder mill in New Jersey.
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The first coast-to-coast telephone line was established in 1914.
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When Charles Darwin first discovered the Galapagos Tortoises, he tried to ride them!
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The first semi-permanent settlements appeared in Florida around 5000 B.C.
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Although Nostradamus died in the middle of 1566, his 1567 almanac was published because he had the foresight to prepare it before his death.
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Queen Elizabeth II served as a mechanic and driver in World War 2.
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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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