The original Cinderella was Egyptian and wore fur slippers.
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London's Pall Mall became the first street lit by gaslight in 1807!
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The native Americans planted three sisters (corn, beans, and squash) together so that they would benefit each other. The corn provides a structure for the beans to climb. The beans provide the nitrogen to the soil, and the squash spreads along the ground preventing weeds.
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Leonardo Da Vinci loved animals so much that he used to buy caged animals at the market just to set them free.
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Canada's new flag, with its maple leaf design, was unfurled in 1965 in Ottawa!
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Henry Ford was Charles Lindbergh's first passenger in the Spirit of St. Louis.
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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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The first bomb dropped on Germany in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin zoo!
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