English sailors were referred to as "limeys" because sailors added lime juice to their diet to combat scurvy.
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Canada's new flag, with its maple leaf design, was unfurled in 1965 in Ottawa!
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Approximately 25,000 workers died during the building of the Panama Canal, and approximately 20,000 of them contracted malaria and yellow fever.
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Beethoven, was told by a music teacher that he had no talent for music. In fact, this teacher once remarked, “As a composer he is hopeless.”
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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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The great wall of China is 1,400 miles long!
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Traces of cocaine were found on 99% of UK bank notes in a survey in London in 2000.
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