Henry Ford was Charles Lindbergh's first passenger in the Spirit of St. Louis.
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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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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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Tablecloths were originally meant to serve as towels with which guests could wipe their hands and faces after dinner.
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Picasso’s full name: Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso.
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The Canadian province of New Brunswick (which was part of the UK at the time) had a bloodless war with the US state of Maine in 1839
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During World War II, Uncle Ben's was the exclusive supplier of rice to the U.S. Armed Forces.
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Two dogs were among the Titanic survivors.
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