Tablecloths were originally meant to serve as towels with which guests could wipe their hands and faces after dinner.
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No one knows how many people died during the sinking of the Titanic.
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Pierre Jaquet-Droz, a watchmaker, 240 years ago invented a robot that could write, and the parts could be interchanged to say whatever you want.
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In 1958, a nuclear bomb was lost somewhere along the swampy coast of Georgia. Its whereabouts remain a mystery to this day.
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The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal.
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In 1700s, the deer skin was a common medium of exchange between the trading settlers and the native Red Indians in America. This is how a buck became a slang for a dollar.
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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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