Harry S. Truman was the last U.S. President with no college degree.
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The average life span of a peasant during the medieval ages was 25 years.
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Because metal was scarce; the Oscars given out during World War II were made of plaster.
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The University of Oxford (teaching since 1096) predates the Aztec empire (1428 - 1521).
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The oldest patented company logo is the red triangle of Bass beers!
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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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Although Nostradamus died in the middle of 1566, his 1567 almanac was published because he had the foresight to prepare it before his death.
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