Approximately 25,000 workers died during the building of the Panama Canal, and approximately 20,000 of them contracted malaria and yellow fever.
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In 1987 American Airlines saved $40,000 by eliminating one olive from its First Class salads.
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Tickling was a form of torture used in ancient China on nobility because it left no mark and recovery was quick.
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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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Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
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