Originally, Du Pont, Inc. was a tiny gun powder mill in New Jersey.
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Kung Fu actually originated in India, but was developed further in China.
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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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Napoleon Bonaparte thought torture should be abolished because the information obtained from it is worthless.
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Al Capone's armored limousine, after being seized by the feds, was later used to protect Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR), 32nd President of the US, after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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The life expectancy in 1900 was just 47 years.
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In 1897, Bayer, who is the maker of Aspirin, marketed the drug heroin.
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The first coast-to-coast telephone line was established in 1914.
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