- In the spring of 1975, a baby in Detroit fell 14 stories and landed on Joseph Figlock, who was walking below. A few years later it happened again. Figlock and both babies survived.
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(Added: Thu Jan 24 2008 By Gauher) - The destruction of the Berlin Wall began when private citizens began to demolish entire sections of the Wall without interference from government officials on November 9, 1989.
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(Added: Fri Oct 31 2008 By Gauher) - Ever since 1944 the town of Bunol, which is near Valencia, Spain has a festival called "Tomatina." The festival occurs once a year on the last Wednesday of the month of August. People have a huge food fight and throw tomatoes at each other, and this festival is considered the world's largest food fight.
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(Added: Fri Oct 31 2008 By Gauher) - It is estimated that by the end of 2000, there has been 142,600 tonnes of gold mined in the world.
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(Added: Fri Oct 31 2008 By Gauher) - The first African-American to receive a Nobel Peace Prize was Ralph J. Bunche in 1950.
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(Added: Fri Oct 31 2008 By Gauher) - In 1693, the postage rate of a letter was determined by how much light went through the letter. The less the light went through the letter the more expensive the rate would be. This technique was referred to as candling.
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(Added: Fri Oct 31 2008 By Gauher) - In 1943, Navy officer Grace Hopper found a glitch in her computer. After investigating, she discovered the system had a bug - a real one. Turns out a moth made its way into Hopper\'s computer. Though the word bug has meant fault or defect since as far back as the 1870\'s, Hopper's story is credited with making it the synonym of choice in the computer industry.
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(Added: Fri Sep 19 2008 By Gauher) - Peter the Great executed his wife's lover, and forced her to keep her lover's head in a jar of alcohol in her bedroom.
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(Added: Sun Jul 13 2008 By Gauher) - Abdul Kassam Ismael, Grand Vizier of Persia in the tenth century, carried his library with him wherever he went. Four hundred camels carried the 117,000 volumes.
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(Added: Tue Jan 22 2008 By Gauher) - Among the Buganda people of Uganda, the widows of a deceased king have the honour of drinking beer in which the dead king's entrails have been cleaned.
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(Added: Fri Oct 31 2008 By Gauher) - During the Gold Rush in 1849, some people paid as much as $100 for a simple glass of water.
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(Added: Fri Oct 31 2008 By Gauher) - Edward VIII did not officially become the King of England as he abdicated the throne to marry an American divorcee.
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(Added: Fri Oct 31 2008 By Gauher) - The Ice Man, found in the Italian Alps, is now thought to have been murdered. Scientists have just found an arrowhead stuck in the man's back. He is now known as the oldest murder victim on record.
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(Added: Fri Oct 31 2008 By Gauher) - In 1865, the U.S. Secret Service was first established for the specific purpose to combat the counterfeiting of money.
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