At age 18, the Queen of England was a mechanic for the British Military.
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The Titanic is about as long as the Empire State building is tall.
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Cleopatra married two of her brothers.
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A WW2 observation pilot, bored of not being in combat, decided to strap 6 bazookas to his plane. He destroyed several enemy tanks and vehicles. His name was Lt. Col. Charles Carpenter, aka Bazooka Charlie / The Mad Major.
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In 1963, the US Military created an artificial ring around Earth, similar to that of the planet Saturn. The ring was made of copper needles and was used for worldwide communications in the case that the Soviets disabled all other methods of communication.
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If Earth's history was condensed into twenty-four hours, life would've appeared at around 4am, land plants at 10:24pm, dinosaur extinction at 11:41pm, and human history would’ve began at 11:58:43pm.
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Jericho is the oldest walled city in the world at 9,000 yrs old!
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Harry S. Truman was the last U.S. President with no college degree.
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