In 1963, the US Military created an artificial ring around Earth, similar to that of the planet Saturn. The ring was made of copper needles and was used for worldwide communications in the case that the Soviets disabled all other methods of communication.
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The first bomb dropped on Germany in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin zoo!
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The Mint once considered producing doughnut-shaped coins!
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Early American humans hunted car-size armadillos and used their shells for houses.
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Henry Ford was Charles Lindbergh's first passenger in the Spirit of St. Louis.
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The ancient Egyptians thought the function of the brain was to produce snot.
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In 1982, a high school student from Los Angeles, California unscrambled the Rubik's Cube in 22.95 seconds.
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A monk had once written over a book that contained information about calculus that was written by Archimedes in ancient Greece that could have made us 100 or even 1000 years more mathematically and technologically advanced.
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