The handbook issued to US soldiers in Britain during WW2 included the line "The British don't know how to make a good cup of coffee. You don't know how to make a good cup of tea. It's an even swap."
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The first coast-to-coast telephone line was established in 1914.
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Henry Ford was Charles Lindbergh's first passenger in the Spirit of St. Louis.
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The oldest patented company logo is the red triangle of Bass beers!
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Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards.
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Until President Kennedy was killed, it wasn't a federal crime to assassinate the President.
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The Taj Mahal took 20 years and 20 thousand men to finish!
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