In the 1930's, American track star Jesse Owens used to race against horses and dogs to earn a living.
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To take an oath, ancient Romans put a hand on their testicles
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The first bomb dropped by the Allies on berlin in WW2 killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
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The Nestles haven't run Nestle since 1875.
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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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A baboon called Jackie became a private in the South African army in World War I.
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The Grateful Dead were once called 'The Warlocks'.
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