February 1865 is the only month in recorded history to not have a full moon.
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The oldest patented company logo is the red triangle of Bass beers!
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Napoleon had conquered Italy by the time he was twenty-six.
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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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The site where the Parthenon was built had to be cleared of hundreds of dinosaur bones (then called giants' bones) before construction could begin.
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A baboon called Jackie became a private in the South African army in World War I.
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