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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Instead of McDonald's tearing down a ~200-year-old Georgian mansion, citizens of a small NY town forced them to renovate it instead, resulting in a uniquely historic franchise location.
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Astronomer Percival Lowell believed that he was the first person to observe canals on Venus, but because of a faulty adjustment of the eyepiece on his telescope, he was in fact looking at the blood vessels in his own eye.
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In real life, Pocahontas was 11 years old when she met John Smith - he was 28.
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