The first chocolate eggs were made in Germany in the 19th century and remain one of the most popular Easter candies today.
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During the 1600's, boys and girls in England wore dresses until they were about seven years old.
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Until President Kennedy was killed, it wasn't a federal crime to assassinate the President.
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The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal.
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The handbook issued to US soldiers in Britain during WW2 included the line "The British don't know how to make a good cup of coffee. You don't know how to make a good cup of tea. It's an even swap."
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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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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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