No one knows who designed the first American Flag.
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Because metal was scarce; the Oscars given out during World War II were made of plaster.
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In 2011, a couple bought a box of textbooks for $10. Inside, they found a 25-cent bill signed by the president of the Republic of Texas, Sam Houston, and subsequently sold it for $63,250.
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The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.
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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 University of Oxford (teaching since 1096) predates the Aztec empire (1428 - 1521).
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