In 1987 American Airlines saved $40,000 by eliminating one olive from its First Class salads.
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The site where the Parthenon was built had to be cleared of hundreds of dinosaur bones (then called giants' bones) before construction could begin.
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If a surgeon in Ancient Egypt lost a patient while performing an operation, his hands were cut off.
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London's Pall Mall became the first street lit by gaslight in 1807!
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The average life span of a peasant during the medieval ages was 25 years.
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During WW2, captured German officers were sent to Britain as POWs and lived in luxury in Trent Park. This was done to make them feel relaxed. However, they were being listened to by 100 ‘listeners’. They revealed secrets about the holocaust, events in Berlin, Hitler's madness and V2 rocket bases.
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The first coast-to-coast telephone line was established in 1914.
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In 1976 an LA secretary named Jannene Swift officially married a 50 pound rock in a ceremony witnessed by more than 20 people.
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