In 1987 American Airlines saved $40,000 by eliminating one olive from its First Class salads.
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During the Cold War, the US had planned to detonate a nuclear weapon on the moon.
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Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
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In 1980, the city of Detroit presented Saddam Hussein with a key to the city.
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Modern humans first appeared about 200,000 years ago, but record keeping didn't begin until about 6,000 years ago. That means about 97% of human history is lost.
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Originally, Du Pont, Inc. was a tiny gun powder mill in New Jersey.
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Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards.
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Allegedly, Chrysippus, the Greek philosopher, died of laughter after getting his donkey drunk and watching it try to eat figs.
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