The last time American Green cards were actually green was 1964.
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Scientists are excavating the ruins of a major civilization which pre-dates both the pyramids and Stonehenge by over 7,000 years. In 15 years, they have uncovered only about 5% of the site.
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Tickling was a form of torture used in ancient China on nobility because it left no mark and recovery was quick.
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Jericho is the oldest walled city in the world at 9,000 yrs old!
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Pineapples were such a status symbol in 18th century England that you could rent one for the evening to take to a party.
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Originally, Du Pont, Inc. was a tiny gun powder mill in New Jersey.
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A monk had once written over a book that contained information about calculus that was written by Archimedes in ancient Greece that could have made us 100 or even 1000 years more mathematically and technologically advanced.
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The time interval from first sighting of the iceberg that sank the Titanic to impact was a little over 30 seconds.
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