Canada's new flag, with its maple leaf design, was unfurled in 1965 in Ottawa!
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Hundreds of years ago, the Aztecs of Mexico and the people of Nicaragua believed gods lived in volcanoes. They would sacrifice beautiful young girls to these powerful gods.
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The native Americans planted three sisters (corn, beans, and squash) together so that they would benefit each other. The corn provides a structure for the beans to climb. The beans provide the nitrogen to the soil, and the squash spreads along the ground preventing weeds.
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Leonardo Da Vinci loved animals so much that he used to buy caged animals at the market just to set them free.
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Approximately 40% of the U.S. paper currency in circulation was counterfeit by the end of the Civil War.
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The first telephone book was one page long and had only 50 names in it.
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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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