The rarest motorcycle in the world was found behind a brick wall in Chicago and has engine technologies well ahead of its time. The “Traub” is still running to this day.
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It has been calculated that every 2 minutes, we take more pictures than all of humanity in the 19th century.
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Daniel Webster, who ran for president and lost three times, declined the Vice Presidency twice, thinking it a worthless office. Both presidents who offered it later died in office, meaning that if he had accepted, he would’ve become president after all.
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Ma Yu Ching’s Bucket Chicken House in Kaifeng, China is considered the world’s oldest operating restaurant, first opening in 1153 AD during the Jing Dynasty.
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In real life, Pocahontas was 11 years old when she met John Smith - he was 28.
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Leonardo Da Vinci predicted the mass use of solar energy as long ago as 1447.
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