The U.S. motto, 'In God We Trust', was not adopted as the national slogan until 1956.
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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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In 2011, a couple bought a box of textbooks for $10. Inside, they found a 25-cent bill signed by the president of the Republic of Texas, Sam Houston, and subsequently sold it for $63,250.
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In 1999, Pepsi, Inc. paid $0.00 in income tax!
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Early American humans hunted car-size armadillos and used their shells for houses.
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The average life span of a peasant during the medieval ages was 25 years.
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Pierre Jaquet-Droz, a watchmaker, 240 years ago invented a robot that could write, and the parts could be interchanged to say whatever you want.
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Napoleon Bonaparte thought torture should be abolished because the information obtained from it is worthless.
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