There are pictures of Knights fighting Snails in old Medieval manuscripts - and nobody knows why.
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In 1999, Pepsi, Inc. paid $0.00 in income tax!
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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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Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox.
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The handbook issued to US soldiers in Britain during WW2 included the line "The British don't know how to make a good cup of coffee. You don't know how to make a good cup of tea. It's an even swap."
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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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