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    The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.
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    The original Cinderella was Egyptian and wore fur slippers.
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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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    The U.S. motto, 'In God We Trust', was not adopted as the national slogan until 1956.
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    Pirate Jean Lafitte Countered Governor's $500 Bounty for Him with a $5,000 Bounty for Governor
    When pirate Jean Lafitte saw the governor advertising a $500 reward for his capture, Lafitte offered $5,000 for the capture of the governor.
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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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    The last time American Green cards were actually green was 1964.
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    In Ancient Egypt, some people paid their taxes in honey.
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