The first telephone book was one page long and had only 50 names in it.
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Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
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The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.
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In 1542, French aristocrat Marguerite De La Rocque survived being marooned for 2 years alone on a remote island off the coast of Quebec.
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The native Americans planted three sisters (corn, beans, and squash) together so that they would benefit each other. The corn provides a structure for the beans to climb. The beans provide the nitrogen to the soil, and the squash spreads along the ground preventing weeds.
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There's no evidence that pirates made people walk the plank.
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If Earth's history was condensed into twenty-four hours, life would've appeared at around 4am, land plants at 10:24pm, dinosaur extinction at 11:41pm, and human history would’ve began at 11:58:43pm.
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Canada's new flag, with its maple leaf design, was unfurled in 1965 in Ottawa!
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