During the Gold Rush in 1849, some people paid as much as $100 for a glass of water!
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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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If a surgeon in Ancient Egypt lost a patient while performing an operation, his hands were cut off.
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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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In 1799, a boy found a 17lb. rock in a creek in North Carolina and used it as a doorstop. It was actually gold.
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There's no evidence that pirates made people walk the plank.
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The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.
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