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    Clocks made before 1660 had only one hand - an hour hand.
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    In 1987 American Airlines saved $40,000 by eliminating one olive from its First Class salads.
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    The Mint once considered producing doughnut-shaped coins!
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    The Taj Mahal took 20 years and 20 thousand men to finish!
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    In medieval Italy, if a man was caught kissing a woman in public, he had to marry her whether he liked it or not.
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    In Ancient Egypt, some people paid their taxes in honey.
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