The original Cinderella was Egyptian and wore fur slippers.
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Henry Ford was Charles Lindbergh's first passenger in the Spirit of St. Louis.
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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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The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.
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In Ancient Greece, if a woman watched even one Olympic event, she was executed.
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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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The native Americans planted three sisters (corn, beans, and squash) together so that they would benefit each other. The corn provides a structure for the beans to climb. The beans provide the nitrogen to the soil, and the squash spreads along the ground preventing weeds.
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