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    The oldest patented company logo is the red triangle of Bass beers!
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    The first coast-to-coast telephone line was established in 1914.
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    Derinkuyu Underground City
    Derinkuyu Underground City
    In 1963, a man found a mysterious room behind a wall in his home that lead to a huge underground city that once housed up to 20,000 people, complete with schools, livestock pens, and food stores, dating back over a millennium.
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    London's Pall Mall became the first street lit by gaslight in 1807!
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    In medieval Italy, if a man was caught kissing a woman in public, he had to marry her whether he liked it or not.
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    Two dogs were among the Titanic survivors.
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    Pilgrims did not eat with forks. They only used spoons, knives and their fingers.
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    In 2011, a couple bought a box of textbooks for $10. Inside, they found a 25-cent bill signed by the president of the Republic of Texas, Sam Houston, and subsequently sold it for $63,250.
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