During the Cold War, the US had planned to detonate a nuclear weapon on the moon.
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A WW2 observation pilot, bored of not being in combat, decided to strap 6 bazookas to his plane. He destroyed several enemy tanks and vehicles. His name was Lt. Col. Charles Carpenter, aka Bazooka Charlie / The Mad Major.
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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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The last time American Green cards were actually green was 1964.
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In ancient Greece, tossing an apple to a girl was a traditional proposal of marriage. Catching it meant that she accepted.
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Canada's new flag, with its maple leaf design, was unfurled in 1965 in Ottawa!
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Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
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