London's Pall Mall became the first street lit by gaslight in 1807!
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The World Trade Center towers used to have two zip codes, 10047-10048, one for each building.
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Pilgrims did not eat with forks. They only used spoons, knives and their fingers.
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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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Henry Ford was Charles Lindbergh's first passenger in the Spirit of St. Louis.
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There are 92 known cases of nuclear bombs lost at sea.
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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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Originally, Du Pont, Inc. was a tiny gun powder mill in New Jersey.
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