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    The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.
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    In 1987 American Airlines saved $40,000 by eliminating one olive from its First Class salads.
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    After World War 2 ended in 1945, a Japanese officer named Hiroo Onoda didn't surrender and continued the war for 29 years because he didn't know that Japan had surrendered and the war was over.
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    The Titanic is about as long as the Empire State building is tall.
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    In Ancient Greece, if a woman watched even one Olympic event, she was executed.
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    In 1897, Bayer, who is the maker of Aspirin, marketed the drug heroin.
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    Until President Kennedy was killed, it wasn't a federal crime to assassinate the President.
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    In 1958, a nuclear bomb was lost somewhere along the swampy coast of Georgia. Its whereabouts remain a mystery to this day.
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