Queen Elizabeth II served as a mechanic and driver in World War 2.
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Pineapples were such a status symbol in 18th century England that you could rent one for the evening to take to a party.
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The great wall of China is 1,400 miles long!
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The first coast-to-coast telephone line was established in 1914.
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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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In the great fire of London, in 1666, half of London was burnt down but only 6 people were injured.
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In the 1830s, a Greek prime minister tried to spread the potato in Greece but people weren't interested so he put armed guards in front of shipments of potatoes so people would think they were important. People then started stealing these potatoes so much that the crop spread to all of Greece.
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