A B-25 bomber airplane crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building on July 28, 1945.
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The first bomb dropped on Germany in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin zoo!
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Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
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When Charles Darwin first discovered the Galapagos Tortoises, he tried to ride them!
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The U.S. motto, 'In God We Trust', was not adopted as the national slogan until 1956.
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In 2011, a couple bought a box of textbooks for $10. Inside, they found a 25-cent bill signed by the president of the Republic of Texas, Sam Houston, and subsequently sold it for $63,250.
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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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No one knows how many people died during the sinking of the Titanic.
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