After Germany surrendered in WW2, people in Moscow partied until the entire city actually ran out of vodka.
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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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Only eight men were killed in the battle of lexington!
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Clocks made before 1660 had only one hand - an hour hand.
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Henry Ford was Charles Lindbergh's first passenger in the Spirit of St. Louis.
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In 1918, after the treaty of Versailles (end of WWI), the French Commander-in-chief said "This is not a peace. It is an Armistice for 20 years." 20 years and 65 days later, WWII happened.
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The first bomb dropped on Germany in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin zoo!
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