Approximately 40% of the U.S. paper currency in circulation was counterfeit by the end of the Civil War.
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The first bomb dropped on Germany in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin zoo!
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France’s King Louis XIV was offered biological weapons by an Italian chemist. He not only refused, but also paid the chemist an annual salary to never reveal the technology to anyone else.
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The Taj Mahal took 20 years and 20 thousand men to finish!
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The universally popular Hershey bar was used overseas during World War II as currency.
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During World War 1, starving wolves amassed in such great numbers that Germans and Russians had a temporary cease fire to fight off the wolf attacks.
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The oldest glowing lightbulb was first switched on in 1901 and lives in fire stations in Livermore, CA. It is known as the Centennial Light.
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In 1958, a nuclear bomb was lost somewhere along the swampy coast of Georgia. Its whereabouts remain a mystery to this day.
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