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 average life span of a peasant during the medieval ages was 25 years.
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The Canadian province of New Brunswick (which was part of the UK at the time) had a bloodless war with the US state of Maine in 1839
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The U.S. motto, 'In God We Trust', was not adopted as the national slogan until 1956.
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In Ancient Greece, small penises were desirable, and big ones were for ‘old men and barbarians’
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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 medieval Italy, if a man was caught kissing a woman in public, he had to marry her whether he liked it or not.
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