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    The World Trade Center towers used to have two zip codes, 10047-10048, one for each building.
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    Clocks made before 1660 had only one hand - an hour hand.
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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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    London's Pall Mall became the first street lit by gaslight in 1807!
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    In 1897, Bayer, who is the maker of Aspirin, marketed the drug heroin.
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