Pilgrims did not eat with forks. They only used spoons, knives and their fingers.
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The first telephone book was one page long and had only 50 names in it.
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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 1963, the US Military created an artificial ring around Earth, similar to that of the planet Saturn. The ring was made of copper needles and was used for worldwide communications in the case that the Soviets disabled all other methods of communication.
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The Titanic is about as long as the Empire State building is tall.
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In 1897, Bayer, who is the maker of Aspirin, marketed the drug heroin.
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