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    The last time American Green cards were actually green was 1964.
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    In the 1930's, American track star Jesse Owens used to race against horses and dogs to earn a living.
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    The Canadian province of New Brunswick (which was part of the UK at the time) had a bloodless war with the US state of Maine in 1839
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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 flushing toilet was invented in 1596, not by Thomas Crapper as most people think, but by Sir John Harington.
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