The first semi-permanent settlements appeared in Florida around 5000 B.C.
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Early American humans hunted car-size armadillos and used their shells for houses.
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In 1999, Pepsi, Inc. paid $0.00 in income tax!
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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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In 1982, a high school student from Los Angeles, California unscrambled the Rubik's Cube in 22.95 seconds.
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Leonardo Da Vinci made a robotic lion in 1515 that would walk, sway, open its mouth and move its tail - it even had a compartment that opened to present flowers.
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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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Pierre Jaquet-Droz, a watchmaker, 240 years ago invented a robot that could write, and the parts could be interchanged to say whatever you want.
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