The handbook issued to US soldiers in Britain during WW2 included the line "The British don't know how to make a good cup of coffee. You don't know how to make a good cup of tea. It's an even swap."
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No one knows who designed the first American Flag.
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Napoleon Bonaparte thought torture should be abolished because the information obtained from it is worthless.
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The World Trade Center towers used to have two zip codes, 10047-10048, one for each building.
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A monk had once written over a book that contained information about calculus that was written by Archimedes in ancient Greece that could have made us 100 or even 1000 years more mathematically and technologically advanced.
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In the 1930's, American track star Jesse Owens used to race against horses and dogs to earn a living.
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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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