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    In 1987 American Airlines saved $40,000 by eliminating one olive from its First Class salads.
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    Approximately 25,000 workers died during the building of the Panama Canal, and approximately 20,000 of them contracted malaria and yellow fever.
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    Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards.
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    The Statue of Liberty was a gift of friendship resulting from the diplomatic relationship between the United States and France.
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    In ancient Rome it was considered a sign of leadership to be born with a crooked nose!
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    The first coast-to-coast telephone line was established in 1914.
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