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    The Mint once considered producing doughnut-shaped coins!
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    In 1799, a boy found a 17lb. rock in a creek in North Carolina and used it as a doorstop. It was actually gold.
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    During the Black Plague, it was thought that bad smells were the cause of the plague. "Plague Doctors" therefore wore masks with long beak-like noses stuffed with flowers or smoke to hide the smells.
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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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    Early American humans hunted car-size armadillos and used their shells for houses.
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    The first bomb dropped by the Allies on berlin in WW2 killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
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    Approximately 40% of the U.S. paper currency in circulation was counterfeit by the end of the Civil War.
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    There are 92 known cases of nuclear bombs lost at sea.
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