Ice cream cones were popularized in America during the 1904 World’s Fair in Saint Louis when an ice cream vendor ran out of cups and asked a nearby waffle vendor to roll up his waffles to hold the ice cream.
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Shakespeare invented over 1,700 words that we use today.
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Just before the US started bombing Baghdad, nearly $1 billion dollars was stolen from the Central Bank of Iraq and is now the largest bank robbery in history.
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There are pictures of Knights fighting Snails in old Medieval manuscripts - and nobody knows why.
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In 1956, the IBM 350 hard disk drive had 3.75 MB of storage, weighed over 2000 lbs, had to be moved around with forklifts, and was delivered via large cargo airplanes.
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There’s a Swedish power metal band called “Sabaton” who teach history through their music, including an album devoted to teaching about World War Two.
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In 1949, an official boxing match between a bear and a man was held. The bear won.
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Sifrhippus was a species of horse about the size of an average duck and roamed North America 56 million years ago.
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