In the 1830s, a Greek prime minister tried to spread the potato in Greece but people weren't interested so he put armed guards in front of shipments of potatoes so people would think they were important. People then started stealing these potatoes so much that the crop spread to all of Greece.
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The Taj Mahal took 20 years and 20 thousand men to finish!
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During World War 1, Harry Houdini took 1 year off performing to help sell war bonds and teach american soldiers how to escape from German handcuffs.
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A B-25 bomber airplane crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building on July 28, 1945.
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The first coast-to-coast telephone line was established in 1914.
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During World War 1, starving wolves amassed in such great numbers that Germans and Russians had a temporary cease fire to fight off the wolf attacks.
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Al Capone's armored limousine, after being seized by the feds, was later used to protect Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR), 32nd President of the US, after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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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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