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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The universally popular Hershey bar was used overseas during World War II as currency.
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At age 18, the Queen of England was a mechanic for the British Military.
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Che Guevara suffered from asthma!
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In 1963, the US Military created an artificial ring around Earth, similar to that of the planet Saturn. The ring was made of copper needles and was used for worldwide communications in the case that the Soviets disabled all other methods of communication.
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Only eight men were killed in the battle of lexington!
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