- 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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- 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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- 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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- The first African-American to receive a Nobel Peace Prize was Ralph J. Bunche in 1950.
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- In 1926, a waiter in Budapest committed suicide. He left his suicide note in the form of a crossword and the police had to get help from the public to solve it.
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- 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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- 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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- Edward VIII did not officially become the King of England as he abdicated the throne to marry an American divorcee.
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- 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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- In 1865, the U.S. Secret Service was first established for the specific purpose to combat the counterfeiting of money.
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- About two hundred years before the birth of Christ, the Druids used mistletoe to celebrate that winter was approaching.
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- 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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- 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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- People drank gold powder mixed in with water in medieval Europe to relieve pain from sore limbs.
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