The hands of the clock on the back of the $100 bill are set at approximately 4:10.
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Diamonds can be shattered with a hammer.
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The Canadian province of New Brunswick (which was part of the UK at the time) had a bloodless war with the US state of Maine in 1839
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Romans used a plant called Silphium as contraception. They had so much sex that they drove it into extinction.
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It has been calculated that a single breath from a mature blue whale can inflate up to 2,000 balloons.
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Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying "jag of Flapan", instead of "flag of Japan".
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In 1943, a Pan Am Airline chef snuck whiskey into passengers' coffee to warm them up on a winter flight. When asked what kind of coffee they were being served, he improvised "Irish Coffee," creating the now-famous cocktail.
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