The handbook issued to US soldiers in Britain during WW2 included the line "The British don't know how to make a good cup of coffee. You don't know how to make a good cup of tea. It's an even swap."
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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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Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox.
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No one knows who designed the first American Flag.
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Harry S. Truman was the last U.S. President with no college degree.
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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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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 great wall of China is 1,400 miles long!
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