Until President Kennedy was killed, it wasn't a federal crime to assassinate the President.
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At age 18, the Queen of England was a mechanic for the British Military.
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Hundreds of years ago, the Aztecs of Mexico and the people of Nicaragua believed gods lived in volcanoes. They would sacrifice beautiful young girls to these powerful gods.
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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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Although Nostradamus died in the middle of 1566, his 1567 almanac was published because he had the foresight to prepare it before his death.
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No one knows how many people died during the sinking of the Titanic.
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The first chocolate eggs were made in Germany in the 19th century and remain one of the most popular Easter candies today.
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