In the 1930's, American track star Jesse Owens used to race against horses and dogs to earn a living.
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The oldest patented company logo is the red triangle of Bass beers!
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The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.
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The first bomb dropped on Germany in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin zoo!
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Approximately 40% of the U.S. paper currency in circulation was counterfeit by the end of the Civil War.
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Leonardo Da Vinci made a robotic lion in 1515 that would walk, sway, open its mouth and move its tail - it even had a compartment that opened to present flowers.
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In ancient Greece, tossing an apple to a girl was a traditional proposal of marriage. Catching it meant that she accepted.
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London's Pall Mall became the first street lit by gaslight in 1807!
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