Henry Ford was Charles Lindbergh's first passenger in the Spirit of St. Louis.
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The exact cause of death and burial site of Genghis Khan is unknown, because all of the 2000 funeral guests and 800 soldiers were killed in order to preserve the secret.
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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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India invented the Number System. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.
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The oldest stone tools found are dated from 2.7 - 2.9 million years ago. The species that made these tools is unknown.
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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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Traces of cocaine were found on 99% of UK bank notes in a survey in London in 2000.
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Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
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