The great wall of China is 1,400 miles long!
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In the 1830s, a Greek prime minister tried to spread the potato in Greece but people weren't interested so he put armed guards in front of shipments of potatoes so people would think they were important. People then started stealing these potatoes so much that the crop spread to all of Greece.
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Henry Ford was Charles Lindbergh's first passenger in the Spirit of St. Louis.
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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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Jericho is the oldest walled city in the world at 9,000 yrs old!
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Leonardo Da Vinci made a robotic lion in 1515 that would walk, sway, open its mouth and move its tail - it even had a compartment that opened to present flowers.
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During the 1600's, boys and girls in England wore dresses until they were about seven years old.
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