In 1980, the city of Detroit presented Saddam Hussein with a key to the city.
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Originally, Du Pont, Inc. was a tiny gun powder mill in New Jersey.
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The Titanic is about as long as the Empire State building is tall.
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Al Capone's armored limousine, after being seized by the feds, was later used to protect Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR), 32nd President of the US, after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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After Germany surrendered in WW2, people in Moscow partied until the entire city actually ran out of vodka.
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The Grateful Dead were once called 'The Warlocks'.
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In 1958, a nuclear bomb was lost somewhere along the swampy coast of Georgia. Its whereabouts remain a mystery to this day.
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