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    Clocks made before 1660 had only one hand - an hour hand.
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    A B-25 bomber airplane crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building on July 28, 1945.
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    The first bomb dropped by the Allies on berlin in WW2 killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
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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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    The average life span of a peasant during the medieval ages was 25 years.
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