In the 1930's, American track star Jesse Owens used to race against horses and dogs to earn a living.
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The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.
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In 1918, after the treaty of Versailles (end of WWI), the French Commander-in-chief said "This is not a peace. It is an Armistice for 20 years." 20 years and 65 days later, WWII happened.
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A monk had once written over a book that contained information about calculus that was written by Archimedes in ancient Greece that could have made us 100 or even 1000 years more mathematically and technologically advanced.
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The Titanic is about as long as the Empire State building is tall.
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Napoleon had conquered Italy by the time he was twenty-six.
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The World Trade Center towers used to have two zip codes, 10047-10048, one for each building.
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In 1980, the city of Detroit presented Saddam Hussein with a key to the city.
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