Because metal was scarce; the Oscars given out during World War II were made of plaster.
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In 1982, a high school student from Los Angeles, California unscrambled the Rubik's Cube in 22.95 seconds.
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In 1799, a boy found a 17lb. rock in a creek in North Carolina and used it as a doorstop. It was actually gold.
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In Ancient Egypt, some people paid their taxes in honey.
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Al Capone's armored limousine, after being seized by the feds, was later used to protect Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR), 32nd President of the US, after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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Romans used a plant called Silphium as contraception. They had so much sex that they drove it into extinction.
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Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
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