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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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    The last time American Green cards were actually green was 1964.
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    English sailors were referred to as "limeys" because sailors added lime juice to their diet to combat scurvy.
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    The life expectancy in 1900 was just 47 years.
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    The Canadian province of New Brunswick (which was part of the UK at the time) had a bloodless war with the US state of Maine in 1839
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    Leonardo Da Vinci predicted the mass use of solar energy as long ago as 1447.
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    Derinkuyu Underground City
    Derinkuyu Underground City
    In 1963, a man found a mysterious room behind a wall in his home that lead to a huge underground city that once housed up to 20,000 people, complete with schools, livestock pens, and food stores, dating back over a millennium.
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    The U.S. motto, 'In God We Trust', was not adopted as the national slogan until 1956.
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