The World Trade Center towers used to have two zip codes, 10047-10048, one for each building.
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Leonardo Da Vinci predicted the mass use of solar energy as long ago as 1447.
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The University of Oxford (teaching since 1096) predates the Aztec empire (1428 - 1521).
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In the 1930's, American track star Jesse Owens used to race against horses and dogs to earn a living.
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The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.
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After Germany surrendered in WW2, people in Moscow partied until the entire city actually ran out of vodka.
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In ancient Greece, tossing an apple to a girl was a traditional proposal of marriage. Catching it meant that she accepted.
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