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    Pilgrims did not eat with forks. They only used spoons, knives and their fingers.
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    Canada's new flag, with its maple leaf design, was unfurled in 1965 in Ottawa!
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    The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.
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    The first bomb dropped on Germany in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin zoo!
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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 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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    The Taj Mahal took 20 years and 20 thousand men to finish!
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    Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
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