In 1987 American Airlines saved $40,000 by eliminating one olive from its First Class salads.
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Pilgrims did not eat with forks. They only used spoons, knives and their fingers.
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Only eight men were killed in the battle of lexington!
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The Titanic is about as long as the Empire State building is tall.
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Henry Ford was Charles Lindbergh's first passenger in the Spirit of St. Louis.
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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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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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