Originally, Du Pont, Inc. was a tiny gun powder mill in New Jersey.
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The range of a medieval long-bow is 220 yards.
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In 1799, a boy found a 17lb. rock in a creek in North Carolina and used it as a doorstop. It was actually gold.
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In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
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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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Until President Kennedy was killed, it wasn't a federal crime to assassinate the President.
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During WW2, captured German officers were sent to Britain as POWs and lived in luxury in Trent Park. This was done to make them feel relaxed. However, they were being listened to by 100 ‘listeners’. They revealed secrets about the holocaust, events in Berlin, Hitler's madness and V2 rocket bases.
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The U.S. motto, 'In God We Trust', was not adopted as the national slogan until 1956.
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