Henry Ford was Charles Lindbergh's first passenger in the Spirit of St. Louis.
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Mahatma Gandhi used to travel with his goat so that he could have fresh milk.
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At age 18, the Queen of England was a mechanic for the British Military.
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In 1518, a "dancing plague" struck Strasbourg, Alsace, whereby hundreds of people danced fervently in the streets over the period of a month. Some suffered heart attacks or strokes, and many others died from sheer exhaustion. It remains unexplained.
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Genghis Khan exempted the poor and clergy from taxes, encouraged literacy, and established free religion, leading many peoples to join his empire before they were even conquered.
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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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The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal.
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In Ancient Greece, small penises were desirable, and big ones were for ‘old men and barbarians’
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