The Taj Mahal took 20 years and 20 thousand men to finish!
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The Mint once considered producing doughnut-shaped coins!
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A WW2 observation pilot, bored of not being in combat, decided to strap 6 bazookas to his plane. He destroyed several enemy tanks and vehicles. His name was Lt. Col. Charles Carpenter, aka Bazooka Charlie / The Mad Major.
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Harry S. Truman was the last U.S. President with no college degree.
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The site where the Parthenon was built had to be cleared of hundreds of dinosaur bones (then called giants' bones) before construction could begin.
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The native Americans planted three sisters (corn, beans, and squash) together so that they would benefit each other. The corn provides a structure for the beans to climb. The beans provide the nitrogen to the soil, and the squash spreads along the ground preventing weeds.
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The average life span of a peasant during the medieval ages was 25 years.
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Che Guevara suffered from asthma!
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