During the Gold Rush in 1849, some people paid as much as $100 for a glass of water!
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Henry Ford was Charles Lindbergh's first passenger in the Spirit of St. Louis.
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Although Nostradamus died in the middle of 1566, his 1567 almanac was published because he had the foresight to prepare it before his death.
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Grenades were invented in China over 1,000 years ago.
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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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In 1963, the US Military created an artificial ring around Earth, similar to that of the planet Saturn. The ring was made of copper needles and was used for worldwide communications in the case that the Soviets disabled all other methods of communication.
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A singing birthday card has more computing power than the allied forces in 1945.
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In 1976 an LA secretary named Jannene Swift officially married a 50 pound rock in a ceremony witnessed by more than 20 people.
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