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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Pilgrims did not eat with forks. They only used spoons, knives and their fingers.
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The U.S. motto, 'In God We Trust', was not adopted as the national slogan until 1956.
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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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Beethoven, was told by a music teacher that he had no talent for music. In fact, this teacher once remarked, “As a composer he is hopeless.”
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The Nestles haven't run Nestle since 1875.
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"Yo momma" jokes/insults were invented by Shakespeare.
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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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