In 1700s, the deer skin was a common medium of exchange between the trading settlers and the native Red Indians in America. This is how a buck became a slang for a dollar.
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Originally, Du Pont, Inc. was a tiny gun powder mill in New Jersey.
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London's Pall Mall became the first street lit by gaslight in 1807!
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Harry S. Truman was the last U.S. President with no college degree.
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If Earth's history was condensed into twenty-four hours, life would've appeared at around 4am, land plants at 10:24pm, dinosaur extinction at 11:41pm, and human history would’ve began at 11:58:43pm.
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The site where the Parthenon was built had to be cleared of hundreds of dinosaur bones (then called giants' bones) before construction could begin.
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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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