Henry Ford was Charles Lindbergh's first passenger in the Spirit of St. Louis.
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Hundreds of years ago, the Aztecs of Mexico and the people of Nicaragua believed gods lived in volcanoes. They would sacrifice beautiful young girls to these powerful gods.
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When the Egyptians destroyed Libya in the 13th century B.C. they took 13,230 penises of the conquered enemies as trophies.
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After Germany surrendered in WW2, people in Moscow partied until the entire city actually ran out of vodka.
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In 1700s, the deer skin was a common medium of exchange between the trading settlers and the native Red Indians in America. This is how a buck became a slang for a dollar.
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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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Until President Kennedy was killed, it wasn't a federal crime to assassinate the President.
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