The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal.
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The World Trade Center towers used to have two zip codes, 10047-10048, one for each building.
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The first ever patent in the UK was Aaron Rathbone & Roger Burges, Map makers in 1618!
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The Nestles haven't run Nestle since 1875.
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Hundreds of years ago, the Aztecs of Mexico and the people of Nicaragua believed gods lived in volcanoes. They would sacrifice beautiful young girls to these powerful gods.
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Because metal was scarce; the Oscars given out during World War II were made of plaster.
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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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In ancient Rome it was considered a sign of leadership to be born with a crooked nose!
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