The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.
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The Mint once considered producing doughnut-shaped coins!
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The ancient Egyptians bought jewelry for their pet crocodiles.
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English sailors were referred to as "limeys" because sailors added lime juice to their diet to combat scurvy.
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Al Capone's armored limousine, after being seized by the feds, was later used to protect Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR), 32nd President of the US, after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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The first bomb dropped on Germany in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin zoo!
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Beethoven, was told by a music teacher that he had no talent for music. In fact, this teacher once remarked, “As a composer he is hopeless.”
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Mahatma Gandhi used to travel with his goat so that he could have fresh milk.
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