Pilgrims did not eat with forks. They only used spoons, knives and their fingers.
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The ancient Egyptians bought jewelry for their pet crocodiles.
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Genghis Khan exempted the poor and clergy from taxes, encouraged literacy, and established free religion, leading many peoples to join his empire before they were even conquered.
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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 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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Originally, Du Pont, Inc. was a tiny gun powder mill in New Jersey.
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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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