The U.S. motto, 'In God We Trust', was not adopted as the national slogan until 1956.
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The first bomb dropped on Germany in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin zoo!
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Pilgrims did not eat with forks. They only used spoons, knives and their fingers.
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Until President Kennedy was killed, it wasn't a federal crime to assassinate the President.
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Beethoven, was told by a music teacher that he had no talent for music. In fact, this teacher once remarked, “As a composer he is hopeless.”
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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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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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