During the Gold Rush in 1849, some people paid as much as $100 for a glass of water!
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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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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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In 1987 American Airlines saved $40,000 by eliminating one olive from its First Class salads.
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Cleopatra wasn't Egyptian; she was Greek.
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Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
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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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The site where the Parthenon was built had to be cleared of hundreds of dinosaur bones (then called giants' bones) before construction could begin.
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