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    A B-25 bomber airplane crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building on July 28, 1945.
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    The World Trade Center towers used to have two zip codes, 10047-10048, one for each building.
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    Al Capone's armored limousine, after being seized by the feds, was later used to protect Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR), 32nd President of the US, after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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    In 1982, a high school student from Los Angeles, California unscrambled the Rubik's Cube in 22.95 seconds.
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    There is a 600 year old 240 paged book called the Voynich Manuscript, that’s written language is still completely unknown today.
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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 Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.
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    During the Cold War, the US had planned to detonate a nuclear weapon on the moon.
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