Originally, Du Pont, Inc. was a tiny gun powder mill in New Jersey.
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The site where the Parthenon was built had to be cleared of hundreds of dinosaur bones (then called giants' bones) before construction could begin.
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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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Pilgrims did not eat with forks. They only used spoons, knives and their fingers.
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The time interval from first sighting of the iceberg that sank the Titanic to impact was a little over 30 seconds.
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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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No one knows who designed the first American Flag.
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