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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In 1963, the US Military created an artificial ring around Earth, similar to that of the planet Saturn. The ring was made of copper needles and was used for worldwide communications in the case that the Soviets disabled all other methods of communication.
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Henry Ford was Charles Lindbergh's first passenger in the Spirit of St. Louis.
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In Ancient Greece, if a woman watched even one Olympic event, she was executed.
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"Yo momma" jokes/insults were invented by Shakespeare.
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The average life span of a peasant during the medieval ages was 25 years.
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The Mint once considered producing doughnut-shaped coins!
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Napoleon had conquered Italy by the time he was twenty-six.
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