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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Only eight men were killed in the battle of lexington!
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Napoleon Bonaparte thought torture should be abolished because the information obtained from it is worthless.
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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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No one knows who designed the first American Flag.
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There's a bar in Ireland (presently named Sean’s Bar) that was opened in 900AD.
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