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Did You Know? In 1937, a major fire broke out at the Fox Film studios in New Jersey. The fire destroyed 75% of their movies, including most of their silent films.

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Did You Know? The Roman – Persian wars are the longest in history, lasting over 680 years. They began in 54 BC and ended in 628 AD.

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Did You Know? Pablo Picasso was accused of stealing the Mona Lisa.

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Did You Know? The early years of Picasso – he had to burn his own paintings for warmth in his freezing Paris apartment.

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Did You Know? The first spacecraft to visit Mars was Mariner 4 in 1965.

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Did You Know? The first African-American to walk in space was a UH(University of Houston) alum, Bernard Harris.

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Did You Know? Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre in 1911, which drew more visitors to see the empty space than the actual painting.

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Did You Know? Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.

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Did You Know? A dentist named Alfred Southwick invented the electric chair.

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Did You Know? The oldest cockroach fossils are over 280 million years old.

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Did You Know? The peach was the first fruit to be eaten on the moon.

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Did You Know? Nokia was founded in 1865 and its primary business was manufacturing paper. Nokia’s first mobile phones were released in the 1980’s.

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Did You Know? Aeschylus, the Greek poet and dramatist, was killed when an eagle flying overhead dropped a turtle on his head.

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Did You Know? The first, and largest, pyramid at Giza was built by the pharaoh Khufu.

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Did You Know? France was still executing people by guillotine when the first Star Wars movie came out.

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Did You Know? Ancient Romans celebrated 'Saturnalia', a festival in which slaves were treated as equals and are allowed to wear their masters' clothing.

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Did You Know? On February 10, 2009, two communications satellites accidentally collided above the Taymyr Peninsula in Siberia.

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Did You Know? First parachute jump is made over Paris

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Did You Know? Amazon.com was previously known as Cadabra.com.

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Did You Know? Before 1850 golf balls were made of leather and were stuffed with feathers

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Did You Know? New York was once called New Amsterdam.

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Did You Know? Marcellus Gilmore Edson originally invented peanut butter to be marketed as product for people who had no teeth and could not chew on solid food.

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Did You Know? William Hill Brown is generally believed to have written the first American novel, "The Power of Sympathy," published in Boston in 1791, which relates a tragic love story.

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Did You Know? The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

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Did You Know? The Catholic Church once exhumed the rotting corpse of a deceased Pope and put him on trial.

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Did You Know? The idea of contact lenses was first introduced by Leonardo da Vinci in 1508.

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Did You Know? The Beatles showed their support for the US civil rights movement by refusing to play in concerts where audiences were segregated.

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Did You Know? Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the construction of the building of the Great Pyramid.

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Did You Know? Eugene Shoemaker is the only person whose ashes have been buried on any celestial body outside Earth.

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Did You Know? The first rugby club was formed in 1843.

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Did You Know? In 1750’s cats came from Europe to America as pest controllers.

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Did You Know? The first jet aircraft was invented in Nazi Germany. Development started in 1936, but first takeoff occurred in 1939.

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Did You Know? Ireland’s oldest pub dates back to the year 900 CE.

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Did You Know? If you were drafted during the American Civil War, you could legally pay someone else $300 to go in your place.

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Did You Know? The Boston Marathon didn’t allow female runners until 1972.

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Did You Know? In 1889, the Queen of Italy, Margherita Savoy, ordered the first pizza delivery.

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Did You Know? At weddings, the bride normally stands to the left of the groom so that his sword hand is free to defend against other suitors.

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Did You Know? More people have been to the moon than the bottom of the ocean.

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Did You Know? Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952, but he declined.

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Did You Know? It is estimated that up to 1 million people died while constructing the Great Wall of China.

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Did You Know? The Anglo-Zanzibar war of 1896 is the shortest war on record lasting an exhausting 38 minutes.

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Did You Know? Hawaii officially became a part of the U.S. on june 14 1900.

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Did You Know? Commonly mistaken as an ancient Greek tradition, the Olympics torch relay was actually a Nazi idea.

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Did You Know? Feodor Vassilyev and his first wife, whose name is unknown, hold the record for the most children a couple has parented. She gave birth to a total of 69 children – sixteen pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets and four sets of quadruplets – between 1725 and 1765, in a total of 27 births.

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Did You Know? The flag erected on the Moon during the historic Apollo 11 landing was purchased at a local Sears store for $5.50.

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Did You Know? Bubble wrap was originally designed to be used as a textured wallpaper.

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Did You Know? The Olympic flag has a white background, with five interlaced rings in the centre: blue, yellow, black, green and red. This design is symbolic; it represents the five continents of the world, united by Olympism, while the six colours are those that appear on all the national flags of the world at the present time.

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Did You Know? In 1872 Yellowstone in the U.S was the world‘s first National Park.

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Did You Know? Coca-Cola was first served in 1886. At that time, only 9 colas were served in an average day, 3,285 a year. Today, 19,400 Coke products are consumed every second.

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Did You Know? The dollar was established as the official currency of the U.S. in 1785.

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