Originally, Du Pont, Inc. was a tiny gun powder mill in New Jersey.
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In 1542, French aristocrat Marguerite De La Rocque survived being marooned for 2 years alone on a remote island off the coast of Quebec.
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Approximately 40% of the U.S. paper currency in circulation was counterfeit by the end of the Civil War.
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The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.
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France’s King Louis XIV was offered biological weapons by an Italian chemist. He not only refused, but also paid the chemist an annual salary to never reveal the technology to anyone else.
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If Earth's history was condensed into twenty-four hours, life would've appeared at around 4am, land plants at 10:24pm, dinosaur extinction at 11:41pm, and human history would’ve began at 11:58:43pm.
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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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Harry S. Truman was the last U.S. President with no college degree.
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