During World War 1, Harry Houdini took 1 year off performing to help sell war bonds and teach american soldiers how to escape from German handcuffs.
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Tablecloths were originally meant to serve as towels with which guests could wipe their hands and faces after dinner.
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The first semi-permanent settlements appeared in Florida around 5000 B.C.
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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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Cleopatra wasn't Egyptian; she was Greek.
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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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