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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The first telephone book was one page long and had only 50 names in it.
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No one knows how many people died during the sinking of the Titanic.
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If Earth's history was condensed into twenty-four hours, life would've appeared at around 4am, land plants at 10:24pm, dinosaur extinction at 11:41pm, and human history would’ve began at 11:58:43pm.
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No one knows who designed the first American Flag.
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Pineapples were such a status symbol in 18th century England that you could rent one for the evening to take to a party.
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The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal.
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