In 1700s, the deer skin was a common medium of exchange between the trading settlers and the native Red Indians in America. This is how a buck became a slang for a dollar.
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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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Cleopatra married two of her brothers.
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"Yo momma" jokes/insults were invented by Shakespeare.
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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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At age 18, the Queen of England was a mechanic for the British Military.
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The first bomb dropped on Germany in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin zoo!
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During the Cold War, the US had planned to detonate a nuclear weapon on the moon.
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