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- Kamikazi pilots wore helmets. -SH
- Adolf Hitler came to power by only one vote. -BB
- English became USA's official language over German by only one vote. -BB
- The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours. -KH
- The first novel written on a typewriter was The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. -AN
- Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence of July 4th: John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last name was not added until 5 years later. -AN
- The Pentagon has twice as many bathrooms as necessary because when it was built, back in 1940's, Virginia still had segregation laws requiring seperate toilet facilities for blacks and whites. -AN
- During the average conversation, one out of seven people will think of Abraham Lincoln. -EB
- Half of the American soldiers that died in WWI didn't die from war injuries. They died from the 1918 flu epidemic. -CS
- Nagasaki was only chosen to be bombed in WWII because bad weather prevented them from bombing their original target. -???
- Some historians think William Shakespeare didn't write all of "his" works. -CS
- Winston Churchill suffered from manic depression. -TR
- Ben Franklin wanted the national bird to be a turkey. -CS
- Mexico had 3 different presidents in one day. -AN
- The 1989 Earthquake in L.A. started a wave of long-distance calls to the area. About 140 million calls were made, the most ever for one day. -???
- The first prize in a cereal box was a paper airplane cutout, in 1943. -KW
- Shampoo was first marketed in the USA in 1930 by John Breck, who was the captain of a volunteer fire department. -KW
- The yo-yo was first patented in the USA in 1929. -KW
- The Bible never says how many kings, or wise men, came to visit Baby Jesus. -TR
- The Bible never says what fruit got Adam and Eve kicked out of the Garden of Eden. -KS
- In the 1300's, animals were put on trial for things like killing sheep. -TR
- The middle finger insult was created by the Romans. It was called the "impotent finger." -TR
- In 1925, the winter was so cold that the Niagra Falls froze. -AN
- King Louis XIV of France only took three baths in his life and was forced to take all three. -AN
- The Nile River froze in the Nith and Eleventh Centuries. -AN
- The Roman emperor Caligula made his horse a Senator. -AN
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Last modified: 25 Sep 1998