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    Henry Ford was Charles Lindbergh's first passenger in the Spirit of St. Louis.
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    The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.
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    In 1542, French aristocrat Marguerite De La Rocque survived being marooned for 2 years alone on a remote island off the coast of Quebec.
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    Moustache Tea Cups
    Moustache Tea Cups
    In the Victorian era, they had special tea cups that protected your moustache from getting dunked in your tea.
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    After Germany surrendered in WW2, people in Moscow partied until the entire city actually ran out of vodka.
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    A baboon called Jackie became a private in the South African army in World War I.
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    "Yo momma" jokes/insults were invented by Shakespeare.
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    A monk had once written over a book that contained information about calculus that was written by Archimedes in ancient Greece that could have made us 100 or even 1000 years more mathematically and technologically advanced.
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