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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A singing birthday card has more computing power than the allied forces in 1945.
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Recently, archaeologists excavating in the old medieval town of Odense in Denmark uncovered 700-year-old barrels of poop - and, to their surprise, they still smelt.
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Che Guevara suffered from asthma!
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Pilgrims did not eat with forks. They only used spoons, knives and their fingers.
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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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During the Black Plague, it was thought that bad smells were the cause of the plague. "Plague Doctors" therefore wore masks with long beak-like noses stuffed with flowers or smoke to hide the smells.
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A B-25 bomber airplane crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building on July 28, 1945.
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