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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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    In 1700s, the deer skin was a common medium of exchange between the trading settlers and the native Red Indians in America. This is how a buck became a slang for a dollar.
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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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    The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.
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    Japanese Holdout
    Japanese Holdout
    After World War 2 ended in 1945, a Japanese officer named Hiroo Onoda didn't surrender and continued the war for 29 years because he didn't know that Japan had surrendered and the war was over.
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    Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
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    Cleopatra wasn't Egyptian; she was Greek.
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    Originally, Du Pont, Inc. was a tiny gun powder mill in New Jersey.
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