The Mint once considered producing doughnut-shaped coins!
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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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The first ever patent in the UK was Aaron Rathbone & Roger Burges, Map makers in 1618!
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The first telephone book was one page long and had only 50 names in it.
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Tablecloths were originally meant to serve as towels with which guests could wipe their hands and faces after dinner.
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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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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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