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    Pilgrims did not eat with forks. They only used spoons, knives and their fingers.
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    Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
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    Rocket Mail
    Rocket Mail
    In 1959, the USPS attempted to deliver mail via cruise missile and successfully shipped 3,000 pieces of mail from Virginia to Florida in 22 minutes.
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    The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal.
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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 first bomb dropped by the Allies on berlin in WW2 killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
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    Scientists are excavating the ruins of a major civilization which pre-dates both the pyramids and Stonehenge by over 7,000 years. In 15 years, they have uncovered only about 5% of the site.
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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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