No one knows who designed the first American Flag.
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Early Romans used to use porcupine quills as toothpicks.
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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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Because metal was scarce; the Oscars given out during World War II were made of plaster.
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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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Jericho is the oldest walled city in the world at 9,000 yrs old!
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The Statue of Liberty was a gift of friendship resulting from the diplomatic relationship between the United States and France.
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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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