The Titanic is about as long as the Empire State building is tall.
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In 1799, a boy found a 17lb. rock in a creek in North Carolina and used it as a doorstop. It was actually gold.
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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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There's no evidence that pirates made people walk the plank.
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In 1980, the city of Detroit presented Saddam Hussein with a key to the city.
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In 1542, French aristocrat Marguerite De La Rocque survived being marooned for 2 years alone on a remote island off the coast of Quebec.
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Approximately 25,000 workers died during the building of the Panama Canal, and approximately 20,000 of them contracted malaria and yellow fever.
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Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
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