Until President Kennedy was killed, it wasn't a federal crime to assassinate the President.
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In the 1830s, a Greek prime minister tried to spread the potato in Greece but people weren't interested so he put armed guards in front of shipments of potatoes so people would think they were important. People then started stealing these potatoes so much that the crop spread to all of Greece.
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Queen Elizabeth II served as a mechanic and driver in World War 2.
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It is estimated that there is in excess of 3,000,000,000 bibles been sold throughout the world!
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In Ancient Greece, if a woman watched even one Olympic event, she was executed.
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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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Modern humans first appeared about 200,000 years ago, but record keeping didn't begin until about 6,000 years ago. That means about 97% of human history is lost.
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