Approximately 25,000 workers died during the building of the Panama Canal, and approximately 20,000 of them contracted malaria and yellow fever.
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Traces of cocaine were found on 99% of UK bank notes in a survey in London in 2000.
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London's Pall Mall became the first street lit by gaslight in 1807!
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Originally, Du Pont, Inc. was a tiny gun powder mill in New Jersey.
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In 1999, Pepsi, Inc. paid $0.00 in income tax!
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The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.
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Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
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Ancient Greeks believed that redheads turned into vampires after they died.
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