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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Originally, Du Pont, Inc. was a tiny gun powder mill in New Jersey.
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The Canadian province of New Brunswick (which was part of the UK at the time) had a bloodless war with the US state of Maine in 1839
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Ancient Greeks believed that redheads turned into vampires after they died.
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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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There's a bar in Ireland (presently named Sean’s Bar) that was opened in 900AD.
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